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Anna Karenina (1915 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Anna Karenina' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. It was the first American adaptation of the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy. The film is considered to be lost.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003106/http://www.thegreatstars.com/lost_film_wanted.htm Anna Karenina at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted](Wayback Machine) Some scenes were shot on location at a ski resort near Montreal.
Plot
Anna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry her once she leave her husband.
However, Russian society's rejection makes her feel isolated, possessive and even paranoid due to her infidelity's suspicions which will lead eventually to her suicide.
Cast
* Betty Nansen as Anna Karenina
* Edward Jos as Baron Alexis Karenin
* Richard Thornton as Prince Vronsky
* Stella Hammerstein
See also
*List of lost films
*1937 Fox vault fire
References
Bibliography
* Krefft, Vanda. 'The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox'. HarperCollins, 2017.
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