Choose the best Anna Karenina: the nine “faces” of the heroine of Leo Tolstoy

The famous Tolstoy novel filmed
many times — both in Russia and abroad. And each actress was trying
to make this image something of their own, to make their Anne different from the images created by colleagues-predecessors…

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo — one of the most famous
performers the role of Anna Karenina. The great actress had a chance to play one of
favorite heroines of Tolstoy twice. First time — in Poland
the film “Love” in 1927. However, this version was free. It was not the famous steam locomotive, ended the life of Anna, and the whole movie ended with a happy ending. But the makers of the next film adaptation, released in 1935, did their best to bring the plot to the novel. However, some contemporaries found Greta too arrogant and cold for such a tragic love story.

Vivien Leigh

But Vivien Leigh played the cheerful, cheerful and very virtuous Anna. As
later admitted the actress, she failed to fully understand her character. In
the result, the film, released in 1948, a special success with the public had not. Yes
she and Vivian was left disappointed with the result of their work. The only thing that made an impression on
the audience is a wonderful scenery and spectacular costumes, made in Paris in
special order.

Alla Tarasova

Tarasova, like Greta Garbo, played Karenina twice. However, for the first time – not at the movies and on the stage, the Moscow art Theater.
The play, which enjoyed a mad success, in 1953 it was decided to postpone
on film — in the form of a television movie. And he also led the audience in raptures,
despite the fact that Anna in the novel was half your age Tarasova, which at the time of filming had turned 55! The age of the actress does not prevent
the perception of the heroine. It image version of Anna Karenina, created by Alla Tarasova, for a long time became canonical.

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