Adaptations of Anna Karenina

This is a list of adaptations of Anna Karenina, the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Theatre[]

• 1992: Helen Edmundson's adaptation was produced by Shared Experience for a touring production. Edmundson won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992, and a TMA Award.^[1]

Film[]

• 1911: Anna Karenina (1911 film), a French/Russian adaptation directed by Maurice André Maître.^[2]
• 1914: Anna Karenina (1914 film), a Russian adaptation directed by Vladimir Gardin.
• 1915: Anna Karenina (1915 film), an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen.
• 1917: "Daughter of Anna Karenina" (Дочь Анны Карениной), by screenwriter, director Alexander Arkatov.
• 1918: Anna Karenina (1918 film), a Hungarian adaptation directed by Márton Garas.
• 1920: Anna Karenina (1920 film), a German silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Johannes Riemann, and Heinrich Peer.
• 1927: Love (1927 film), an American version, starring Greta Garbo and directed by Edmund Goulding. This version featured significant changes from the novel and had two different endings, with a happy one for American audiences.
• 1935: Anna Karenina (1935 film), the most famous and critically acclaimed version, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March and directed by Clarence Brown.
• 1948: Anna Karenina (1948 film) starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson and directed by Julien Duvivier.
• 1953: Anna Karenina (1953 film), a Russian version directed by Tatyana Lukashevich.
• 1954: Panakkaari, a Tamil language adaptation directed by K. S. Gopalakrishnan
• 1960: Nahr al-Hob (River of Love), an Egyptian movie directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
• 1967: Anna Karenina (1967 film), a Russian version directed by Alexander Zarkhi with music by Rodion Shchedrin.
• 1976: Anna Karenina, a Russian ballet version directed by Margarita Pilikhina.
• 1985: Anna Karenina (1985 film), a U.S. TV movie starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Reeve, directed by Simon Langton.
• 1997: Anna Karenina (1997 film), the first American version to be filmed on location in Russia, directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean.
  • see also Anna Karenina (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 1997 film
• 2012: Anna Karenina (2012 film), a British version directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley.

Television[]

• 1961: , a BBC Television adaptation directed by Rudolph Cartier, starring Claire Bloom and Sean Connery.^[3][4]
• 1977: Anna Karenina, a ten-episode BBC series, directed by Basil Coleman and starred Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter and Stuart Wilson.^[5][6]
• 2000: Anna Karenina, a four-part British TV adaptation directed by David Blair. Aired in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.^[7]
• 2013: Anna KareNina, a Filipino drama series directed by Gina Alajar
• 2013: , an Italian version for the Rai 1 network, directed by Christian Duguay and starring Vittoria Puccini
• 2015: The Beautiful Lie, an Australian mini-series aired on the ABC.
• Upcoming Netflix miniseries is set in 21st century in Russia which Svetlana Khodchenkova in lead role ^[8]

Ballet[]

• 1972: Anna Karenina, a ballet with original music by Rodion Shchedrin, choreographed by Maya Plisetskaya (solo scenes) together with Natalya Ryzhenko and Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov (mass scenes). The music draws upon the composer's own score for the 1967 film and uses a fragment from Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
• 2005: Anna Karenina, a Russian ballet choreographed by Boris Eifman, with music by Tchaikovsky.
• 2018: Anna Karenina, a ballet by John Neumeier inspired by Leo Tolstoy; music by Tchaikovsky, Alfred Schnittke and Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam^[9]
• 2019: Anna Karenina, choreography by , music by ^[10]

Musical theatre[]

• 1992: Anna Karenina, an ill-fated Broadway musical adaptation.
• 2016: Anna Karenina, an original Russian-language musical produced by the Moscow Operetta Theatre (live-recording filmed in 2018).^[11]

Opera[]

• 1914: Karenina Anna by Hungarian composer Jenő Hubay, premièred in 1923, to a libretto by Sándor Góth and Andor Gábor based on Edmond Guiraud's play drawn from Tolstoy's novel.
• 1970: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian composer Yuly Sergeyevich Meytus.^[12]
• 1978: Anna Karenina by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton on his own libretto, premièred by ENO at the London Coliseum in 1981.
• 2007: Anna Karenina, an American opera with music by David Carlson on a libretto by Colin Graham which premiered in 2007 at Florida Grand Opera. Second version with an added scene on text by was premièred in 2010 by Opera San Jose.

Literature[]

• Android Karenina, a mashup novel by Ben H. Winters.

References[]