Adaptations of Anna Karenina

This is a list of adaptations of Anna Karenina, the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Theatre

1992: Helen Edmundson's adaptation was produced by Shared Experience for a touring production. Edmundson won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992, and a TMA Award.

Film

1911: Anna Karenina (1911 film), a French/Russian adaptation directed by Maurice AndrÃÂ© MaÃÂ®tre.
1914: Anna Karenina (1914 film), a Russian adaptation directed by Vladimir Gardin.
1915: Anna Karenina (1915 film), an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen.
1917: "Daughter of Anna Karenina" (ÃÂÃÂ¾ÃÂÃÂ ÃÂÃÂ½ÃÂ½ÃÂ ÃÂÃÂ°ÃÂÃÂµÃÂ½ÃÂ¸ÃÂ½ÃÂ¾ÃÂ¹), by screenwriter, director Alexander Arkatov.
1918: Anna Karenina (1918 film), a Hungarian adaptation directed by MÃÂ¡rton Garas.
1920: Anna Karenina (1920 film), a German silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Johannes Riemann, and Heinrich Peer.
1927: Love (1927 film), an American version, starring Greta Garbo and directed by Edmund Goulding. This version featured significant changes from the novel and had two different endings, with a happy one for American audiences.
1935: Anna Karenina (1935 film), an American version starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March and directed by Clarence Brown.
1948: Anna Karenina (1948 film) starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson and directed by Julien Duvivier.
1953: Anna Karenina (1953 film), a Russian version directed by Tatyana Lukashevich.
1954: Panakkaari, a Tamil language adaptation directed by K. S. Gopalakrishnan
1960: Nahr al-Hob (River of Love), an Egyptian movie directed by Ezzel Dine Zulficar
1967: Anna Karenina (1967 film), a Russian version directed by Alexander Zarkhi with music by Rodion Shchedrin.
1975: Anna Karenina (1975 film), a Russian ballet version directed by Margarita Pilikhina.
1985: Anna Karenina (1985 film), a U.S. TV movie starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Reeve, directed by Simon Langton.
1997: Anna Karenina (1997 film), the first American version to be filmed entirely on locations in Russia, directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean.
2012: Anna Karenina (2012 film), a British version directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley.
see also Anna Karenina (2012 soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 2012 film

Television

1961: Anna Karenina, a BBC Television adaptation directed by Rudolph Cartier, starring Claire Bloom and Sean Connery.
1977: Anna Karenina, a ten-episode BBC series, directed by Basil Coleman and starred Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter and Stuart Wilson.
2000: Anna Karenina, a four-part British Channel 4 TV adaptation directed by David Blair and starring Helen McCrory. Aired in America on PBS Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.
2013: Anna Karenina, an Italian version for the Rai 1 network, directed by Christian Duguay and starring Vittoria Puccini
2015: The Beautiful Lie, an Australian mini-series aired on the ABC.
Upcoming Netflix miniseries is set in 21st century in Russia with Svetlana Khodchenkova in lead role

Ballet

1972: Anna Karenina, a ballet with original music by Rodion Shchedrin, choreographed by Maya Plisetskaya (solo scenes) together with Natalya Ryzhenko and Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov (mass scenes). The music draws upon the composer's own score for the 1967 film and uses a fragment from Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
2005: Anna Karenina, a Russian ballet choreographed by Boris Eifman, with music by Tchaikovsky.
2018: Anna Karenina, a ballet by John Neumeier inspired by Leo Tolstoy; music by Tchaikovsky, Alfred Schnittke and Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
2019: Anna Karenina, choreography by Yuri Possokhov, music by Ilya Demutsky

Musical theatre

1992: Anna Karenina, an ill-fated Broadway musical adaptation.
1994: Anna Karenina, musical by Hungarian authors Tibor KocsÃÂ¡k (music) and Tibor MiklÃÂ³s (book and lyrics)
2016: Anna Karenina, an original Russian-language musical produced by the Moscow Operetta Theatre (live-recording filmed in 2018).

Opera

1914: Karenina Anna by Hungarian composer JenÃÂ Hubay, premiÃÂ¨red in 1923, to a libretto by SÃÂ¡ndor GÃÂ³th and Andor GÃÂ¡bor based on Edmond Guiraud's play drawn from Tolstoy's novel.
1962: Anna KareninovÃÂ¡ by Czech composer Emil Hlobil on his own libretto, premiÃÂ¨red in ÃÂeskÃÂ© BudÃÂjovice in 1963.
1970: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian composer Yuly Sergeyevich Meytus.
1978: Anna Karenina by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton on his own libretto, premiÃÂ¨red by ENO at the London Coliseum in 1981.
2007: Anna Karenina, an American opera with music by David Carlson on a libretto by Colin Graham which premiered in 2007 at Florida Grand Opera. Second version with an added scene on text by Mark Streshinsky was premiÃÂ¨red in 2010 by Opera San Jose.

Literature

Android Karenina, a mashup novel by Ben H. Winters.
Anna K', a contemporary novel by Jenny Lee.

References