In 2012, British director Joe Wright presented his shocking version of Anna Karenina. Photo: Shutterstock/Fotodomįollow us on Twitter for news about Russian life and cultureĪ hymn to kitsch and Joe Wright’s creative experiment This is exactly what made it possible for each director to tell Karenina’s story in their own way. At the same time, while raising acute social issues and posing questions, Tolstoy does not provide unambiguous answers to any of them.
In Great Britain, home to Shakespearean passions and Jane Austen’s psychological novels, the book became a cult - in British bookstores one can find Anna Karenina in seven different translations. Europe embraced the themes of love, family and the influence of society, which is constantly evaluating the actions of women whose role was predetermined in the end of the 19th century. However, while developing the plot and the characters’ personalities, Tolstoy created one of the most vivid and contradictory female protagonists in world literature. Initially, the main character was a selfish and vulgarly dressed lady who completely lost herself living with her meek husband. Leo Tolstoy worked on Anna Karenina for over three years and published it in its entirety in 1878. Afisha.London magazine lists all adaptations by British directors, as well as some other films based on Anna Karenina that deserve a mention. The most extravagant of them was filmed almost entirely inside a studio pavilion and directed by Joe Wright with Keira Knightley in the title role. British cinema has made a significant contribution - in the UK there had been made as many as 5 films based on the novel. Each adaptation presents its own unique vision of Tolstoy’s heroine and its own reading of her story. Since 1910, it has been adapted for screen more than 30 times, 10 of which fell on the silent film era. Anna Karenina is Leo Tolstoy’s most popular novel amongst filmmakers.
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