Country: UK
Year: 2012
Duration: 130'
In late-19th-century Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother, whose marriage is breaking up. During the voyage, she meets Countess Vronsky and her son, a charming cavalry officer to whom she is immediately attracted. In the stiff and conventional world of Russian high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation and Anna tries unsuccessfully to forget her love. Karenin is thus forced to give his wife an ultimatum, with dramatic consequences.
Biography
film director
Joe Wright
Joe Wright (London, UK, 1972) is the son of two puppeteers who founded the Little Angel Theatre in Islington. He graduated in directing from Central St Martins and directed his first short, Crocodile Snap (1997), for the BBC, obtaining a BAFTA nomination. After working for a while at the Oil Factory, he collaborated once again with the BBC on the miniseries Nature Boy (2000), which was followed by other series, including Charles II: The Power & the Passion, which won a BAFTA. He debuted in feature films with Pride & Prejudice, for which he received numerous recognitions, as well as four Oscar nominations and two for the Golden Globes. His second feature film, Atonement, won two BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and received seven Oscar nominations, winning one for best original soundtrack.
FILMOGRAFIA
Crocodile Snap (cm, tv, 1997), The End (cm, 1998), Nature Boy (ep. 2; 3; 4, cm, tv, 2000) Bob & Rose (ep. 1; 4; 5; 6, cm, tv, 2001), Bodily Harm (tv, 2002), Charles II: The Power & the Passion (Carlo II: Il potere e la passione, tv, 2003), Pride & Prejudice (Orgoglio e pregiudizio, 2005), Atonement (Espiazione, 2007), The Soloist (Il solista, 2009), Hanna (id., 2011), Anna Karenina (id., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“To me, every film is an opportunity for learning. Tom Stoppard and I thought we’d get into the heart of Anna, Levin and all the other characters better if we considered what love was like in Imperial Russian society in the 1870s. I also recalled films in which Robert Altman wove intimate stories together so masterfully. The narrative threads we chose work as a sort of double spiral, they wrap around each other in a multilayered portrait of a community.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Joe Wright
soggetto/story dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Lev Tolstoj
sceneggiatura/screenplay Tom Stoppard
fotografia/cinematography Seamus McGarvey
montaggio/film editing Melanie Ann Oliver
scenografia/production design Sarah Greenwood
costumi/costume design Jacqueline Durran
musica/music Dario Marianelli
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina), Jude Law (Karenin), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Vronsky), Kelly Macdonald (Dolly), Matthew Macfadyen (Oblonsky), Ruth Wilson (la principessa/princess Betsy Tverskoj), Alicia Vikander (Kitty), Olivia Williams (la contessa/countess Vronsky), Emily Watson (la contessa/countess Lydia Ivanovna), Domhnall Gleeson (Levin) produttori/producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
produzione/production Working Title
distribuzione/distribution Universal Pictures International Italy
soggetto/story dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Lev Tolstoj
sceneggiatura/screenplay Tom Stoppard
fotografia/cinematography Seamus McGarvey
montaggio/film editing Melanie Ann Oliver
scenografia/production design Sarah Greenwood
costumi/costume design Jacqueline Durran
musica/music Dario Marianelli
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina), Jude Law (Karenin), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Vronsky), Kelly Macdonald (Dolly), Matthew Macfadyen (Oblonsky), Ruth Wilson (la principessa/princess Betsy Tverskoj), Alicia Vikander (Kitty), Olivia Williams (la contessa/countess Vronsky), Emily Watson (la contessa/countess Lydia Ivanovna), Domhnall Gleeson (Levin) produttori/producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
produzione/production Working Title
distribuzione/distribution Universal Pictures International Italy
