Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина)

MOSFILM

Lev Tolstoy

ANNA KARENINA

Screenplay by V. KATANYAN, A. ZARKHI

Directed by Aleksandr ZARKHI

Director of Photography Leonid KALASHNIKOV

Production Designers Aleksandr BORISOV, Yury KLADIENKO

Music by R. SHCHEDRIN Conductor E. KHACHATURIAN

Sound by V. LESHCHEV, B. ZUYEV

Cast :

Anna Karenina Tatiana SAMOILOVA

Karenin Nikolai GRITSENKO

Vronsky Vassily LANOVOY

Stiva Oblonsky Yuri YAKOVLEV

Konstantin Lyovin Boris GOLDAYEV

Kitty Anastasia VERTINSKAYA

Dolly lya SAVVINA

Princess Betsy Maya PLISETSKAYA

Lydia Ivanovna Lydia SUKHAREVSKAYA

Princess Myaghkaya Yelena TYAPKINA

Countess Vronsky Sophia PILYAVSKAYA

Lawyer - Andrei TUTYSHKIN Seryozha - Vasya SAKHNOVSKY

Part One

'Happy families are all alike.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way...'

It's good... Very good!

Oh, God!

A telegram for you, sir.

How's Darya Alexandrovna?

She instructed me to tell you that she is leaving

and that he can... that is you, sir, can do as you like.

Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow.

Thank God! Alone or with her husband?

Alone. Shall I get the room ready upstairs?

Ask Darya Alexandrovna. Do as she orders.

So what should we do, Matvey?

Oh, well, we'II wait and see.

Help me dress now.

It's six o'clock and the children are unfed.

All they had was yesterday's broth.

- Send someone for milk. - Whom shall I send?

The chef left yesterday,

and the cook's packing, she wants to be paid off today.

Everything in the house is topsy-turvy.

Leave me alone!

Go to her, sir. Ask her to forgive you. She will come round.

- What? - I say she will come round.

You think so?

Now why should this happen to me?

As you make your bed, so must you lie in it...

It's terrible.

- Dolly! - What do you want?

Dolly... Anna is coming tomorrow.

Well, what is that to me? I can't receive her.

Oh, but you must, Dolly.

Go away!

Dolly... What can I say?

Only one thing: forgive me.

Go away.

Cannot nine years of our life together

atone for an instant of infatuation?

Don't talk to me about such filth.

Dolly, for God's sake, think of the children! It's not their fault.

Punish me. Yes, punish me.

I can't find words to express how guilty I feel.

Forgive me, Dolly! Please, forgive me.

I do think of the children.

I would do anything to save them.

Tell me, after what has happened,

can we go on living together?

After my husband, the father of my children,

had a love affair with his children's governess?

What can I do? What can I do?

You are loathsome, repulsive.

Your tears mean nothing. You have never loved me.

You are disgusting! A perfect stranger!

It's awful. One word more...

If you come near me,

I will call everybody and let them know you're a scoundrel!

l'm leaving now.

And you may live here with your mistress.

MOSCOW

A councilman, a landowner, a gymnast, Grinevich.

A cattle-breeder, a sportsman and my friend, Konstantin Dmitrievich Lyovin.

May I see you alone for a minute? Excuse me.

Wait for me here.

My wife is ill. I cannot invite you.

I only wish to say a few words to you.

All right. L'm meeting my sister Anna from Petersburg.

How are the Shcherbatskys? The same as ever?

Well, yes... They're all right.

It's a shame that you hardly come to Moscow.

- Why? - Oh, nothing.

Where are you staying?

I don't know yet. You haven't answered my question.

How is Kitty?

I always know a fine steed by dum de dum... of his breed,

and a lovesick knight by something in his stride.

- So that's why you came to town! - Ah, then you've guessed.

What do you think of my chances?

Who? Me? I could hope for nothing better.

You think it's possible?

Of course. Why not?

If you wish to see them, go to the skating-rink.

Kitty skates there from four to five.

You'II surely see her there. l'II come and fetch you.

Vronsky! Your Excellency! How are you? Whom are you meeting?

- Do you know him? - Yes, we have met.

An honest man. Very straightforward, a heart of gold.

He's come here to propose to my sister-in-law.

- Kitty? - Yes.

I think she could make a better match.

Yes, of course! But he's been in love for so long. L'm really sorry for him.

Yes, it's a painful situation. And who are you meeting?

A pretty woman.

So that's it.

- My sister Anna. - Ah, Madame Karenina.

- You know her? - I think I do... Though l'm not sure.

Surely you must know her husband, Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin?

All the world knows him!

l've heard he's clever and very influential.

He's a wonderful man. Rather conservative, but very nice.

You got my telegram?

- Did you have a good trip, maman? - Very good indeed.

This is Madame Karenina.

Her husband arranged for us to ride together. I was delighted.

I hear you often visit the Shcherbatskys.

Is it a case of ideal love?

I don't quite know what you mean, maman?

Have you found your brother?

Anna Arkadyevna has a little son, from whom she's never been separated,

so she keeps worrying about having left him.

Excuse me. I hadn't recognized you.

But I recognized you, because your mother and I talked only about you.

- You must have been very bored. - On the contrary!

I scarcely noticed how the time passed.

The guard didn't hear the train to reverse.

And he was crushed, cut in half.

How horrible! If you'd only seen it, Anna!

His wife was there too. She flung herself on the body.

They say he was the only support of a very large family.

Can't anything be done to help them?

Oh, my God! Why did this have to happen?

For whose benefit do you intend the 200 rubles?

The widow. Whom did you think?

This is a bad omen.

Nonsense, my dear. You're here, that's the main thing.

You can't imagine how much l'm counting on you.

Have you known Vronsky for long?

He is a capital fellow, rich, has a brilliant future.

We hope he will marry Kitty Shcherbatsky.

Now tell me all about you.

I can't possibly leave him. There're the children... l'm tied...

I understand, Dolly.

He doesn't realize the awfulness of my situation. He seems contented.

Oh no, he's to be pitied, he's full of remorse.

Is he capable of remorse? She's young, she's pretty.

They certainly talked about me.

Or, worse still, they didn't talk about me at all!

The awful thing is that everything's changed in my heart.

Instead of love and tenderness I feel nothing but hatred.

I could kill him!

What am I to do, Anna? Think for me, help me.

l've thought it all over and see no way out.

- Could you forgive him? - I don't know.

But still, Dolly, I think, l'd forgive him.

I could never feel the same again,

but l'd still forgive him as though nothing had happened.

Oh, darling, l'm so happy you've come.

Of course, if I do forgive him...

I would have to do it completely, as if nothing had happened.

Completely.

Go now and may God help you.

Kitty! Kitty, be careful!

Konstantin Dmitrievich, you here? How do you happen to be here?

Thank you.

I came not long ago.

I was looking for you. I wanted to call on you.

I didn't know you skated so well.

- You're considered the best skater. - I used to skate with a passion.

You do everything with a passion, don't you?

I would like to see you skating.

With you I would have learned that faster. I have confidence in you.

My own confidence grows when you lean on me.

It must be dull in the country in the winter?

Oh no! I have a lot to do.

- How long are you staying? - I don't know.

I don't know. It depends on you.

- On me? - Yes, on you.

I... I came to...

I came to ask you... I was looking for you.

No... No, it's impossible.

It couldn't be... I knew it.

No, no... l'm sorry.

You have a lovely sister, Dolly.

What's that?

I brought my ball dress to show you.

- And when is this ball? - Next week.

It's one of those balls where everyone feels so gay.

- Are there such balls? - Certainly. Are you coming?