Anna Karenina
1977 · Drama · 1 Season · 10 Episodes ·
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
1. Part 1After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.
2. Part 2Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.
3. Part 3Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.
4. Part 4Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.
5. Part 5After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.
6. Part 6Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.
7. Part 7Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.
8. Part 8Anna decides to marry Vronsky.
9. Part 9Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.
10. Part 10Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.
