Anna Karenina (2000 miniseries)

Anna Karenina is a four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

It was directed in 2000 by David Blair and aired in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.

Plot

Anna is traveling by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow to visit her brother Stiva. Stiva is married to Dolly. However, Stiva has been having a sexual affair with his governess.

Anna is a married woman with an 8-year-old son who has an extra-marital affair with Count Vronsky. Constantine Levin courts a young woman named Kitty. Levin and Kitty are both unmarried.

Nikolai, Constantine Levin's brother, cohabits with a former prostitute named Masha.

Cast

Helen McCrory as Anna
Kevin McKidd as Vronsky
Stephen Dillane as Karenin
Mark Strong as Stiva
Amanda Root as Dolly
Douglas Henshall as Levin (Constantine "Kostya")
Paloma Baeza as Kitty
Abigail Cruttenden as Betsy
Paul Rhys as Nikolai

External links

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1877)

Film	Anna Karenina (1915 silent) Anna Karenina (1918 silent Hungarian) Love (1927) Anna Karenina (1935) Anna Karenina (1948 English-Italian) The River of Love (1960 Arabic) Anna Karenina (1967 Russian) Anna Karenina (1985) Anna Karenina (1997) Anna Karenina (2012)

TV series	Anna Karenina (1977 TV serial) Anna Karenina (2000 miniseries)

Other performances	Anna Karenina (1978 opera) Anna Karenina (1992 musical) Anna Karenina (2005 ballet) Anna Karenina (2007 opera)

Related	Anna Karenina (soundtrack) Android Karenina Anna Karenina principle Adaptations

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