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Anna Karenina

7.0·1 season·10 episodes·50 min avg.·United Kingdom

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.

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Sep 25, 1977

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

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Part 2
Oct 2, 1977

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

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Part 3
Oct 9, 1977

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

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Part 4
Oct 16, 1977

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

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Part 5
Oct 23, 1977

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

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Part 6
Oct 30, 1977

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

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Part 7
Nov 6, 1977

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

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Part 8
Nov 13, 1977

Anna decides to marry Vronsky.

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Part 9
Nov 20, 1977

Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.

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Part 10
Nov 27, 1977

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

Cast

6 credited
Nicola Pagett
Anna Karenina
Stuart Wilson
Vronsky
Eric Porter
Karenin
Robert Swann
Levin
Davyd Harries
Stiva
Caroline Langrishe
Kitty

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