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| Do not buy this version of the film. Bad transfer. Look for the Oz editionI bought this cheap at a store only to find it one of the worst transfers I had even seen. Yes, it was only $4.99, but it was so fuzzy and the sound was so bad I turned it offer ofter two minutes. I had to do some hunting, but I finally found the Australian edition of this epic movie from umBrella Entertainment which was the full 134 min version. The US edition is edited down to 111 minutes. I found the Oz DVD at an Australian Borders bookstore. The transfer is amazing on this DVD, well compared to another US edition of the movie which looks like it was filmed in 1901 and simply transfered from VHS to DVD after 109 years of playing without any clean up.
The umBrella edition has a beautiful, solo picture-sleeve of Vivian Leigh in a brown-tone colour with the film's title as "Tolstoy's immortal love story Anna Karenina.
I'd also like to thank other reviewers on amazon.com who actually brought to my attention that the US edtion was edited, you saved me buying the wrong version.
Great movie, but I'd go for the full 134 min Oz edition with better transfer.I had to do some hunting, but I finally found the Australian edition of this epic movie from umBrella Entertainment which was the full 134 min version. I found it at an Australian Borders bookstore. The transfer is amazing on this DVD, well compared to another US edition of the movie which looks like it was filmed in 1901 and simply transfered from VHS to DVD after 109 years of playing without any clean up. (it's the one with the cover which looks as if someone has done a cheap water-colour painting)
The umBrella edition has a beautiful, solo picture-sleeve of Vivian Leigh in a brown-tone colour with the film's title as "Tolstoy's immortal love story Anna Karenina.
I'd also like to thank other reviewers on amazon.com who actually brought to my attention that the US edtion was edited, you saved me buying the wrong version.
"When the end comes, what else is there to do but turn down the lights?..."Vivien Leigh's return to films after a three-year absence was as the heroine of Tolstoy's literary classic, ANNA KARENINA. Director Julien Duvivier ("The Great Waltz", "Pepe le Moko") adds a nightmarish, haunted quality to this timeless tale of doomed love.
When Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh) is called to Moscow to help mend a rift in her brother's marriage, she meets by chance the dashing Captain Vronsky (Kieron Moore) who immediately sets her world into a tailspin. Here is the man who can save Anna from the cold indifference of husband Karenin (Ralph Richardson), yet to embark on an affair will mean turning her back on beloved son Sergei (Patrick Skipworth) and exposure to scandal and disgrace.
Vivien Leigh's performance as Anna is amongst her finest work; capping off a series of tragic heroines which included Myra in "Waterloo Bridge" and Emma Hamilton in "That Hamilton Woman". Kieron Moore cuts a handsome figure as Vronksy; and Ralph Richardson is an incredibly sympathetic Karenin (world's apart from Basil Rathbone's one-note performance in the 1935 Garbo version). Sally Ann Howes co-stars as Kitty, with Martita Hunt as Princess Betsy.
The DVD comes with two fascinating featurettes detailing the life and legacy of Tolstoy, in addition to a photo gallery and restoration comparisons. Recommended.
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Not very goodI have never read the book, and all I know of the story is what I saw in this movie. I don't think the story was developed very well. There was little dialogue and little to show that Anna was interested in Vronsky until all of sudden she's crazy about him. It's surprising also when she says his love for her has faded and thinks he is going to marry someone else -- We hadn't really seen anything to lead us to that conclusion. So the end is especially tragic because watching this movie you can't even tell if she was right in her suspicions. Also, I agree with the other reviewer that the quality of the picture and audio was poor.
Product DescriptionA woman forsakes her husband and son for a dashing military officer, but soon realizes the love is doomed.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 24-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.comVivien Leigh is a "Scarlett" woman as tragic heroine Anna Karenina, unhappily married to "colossal bore" Alexei (Ralph Richardson), who neglects her to attend to affairs of state. When Anna meets the dashing Count Vronsky (Kieron Moore), she begins an affair of her own that scandalizes St. Petersburg and leads to her ostracization from high-society circles and, in a heartbreaking scene, her beloved son. Pepe Le Moko director Julien Duvivier's 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's oft-filmed book has stretches that make the film seem as long and cold as a Russian winter night, but the ravishing Leigh as the doomed Anna keeps the fires burning. The "thoughtless and selfish" Anna is a distant relation of the willfull Ms. O'Hara from Gone with the Wind, although her ultimate comeuppance leaves no hope for "another day." This is a high-minded prestige production (Tolstoy gets his name above the title), but it offers the more simple, old fashioned pleasures of a Hollywood melodrama. --Donald Liebenson
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