Anna Karenina

50min

Drama

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.

Episodes

Cast

Part 1

1. Part 1

50min

25th Sep 1977

After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.

Part 2

2. Part 2

50min

2nd Oct 1977

Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.

Part 3

3. Part 3

50min

9th Oct 1977

Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.

Part 4

4. Part 4

50min

16th Oct 1977

Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.

Part 5

5. Part 5

50min

23rd Oct 1977

After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.

Part 6

6. Part 6

50min

30th Oct 1977

Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.

Part 7

7. Part 7

50min

6th Nov 1977

Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.

Part 8

8. Part 8

50min

13th Nov 1977

Anna decides to marry Vronsky.

Part 9

9. Part 9

50min

20th Nov 1977

Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.

Part 10

10. Part 10

50min

27th Nov 1977

Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.

First air date

25th Sep 1977

Last air date

27th Nov 1977

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks