About the film
During the Russo-Japanese War, a military surgeon, Sergei Karenin, finds that the officer on his operating table is Count Vronsky, the man he blames for his mother's death.
Over a few days in a Chinese village, Vronsky tells his version of the love affair that destroyed Anna. The famous story is seen again through memory, guilt and thirty years of distance.
Shakhnazarov's film is the cinema version of his larger television series, with lavish costumes and sets.
Did you know?
- The new frame story is taken from Vikenty Veresaev's notes on the Russo-Japanese War.
- Elizaveta Boyarskaya and Maksim Matveev, who play Anna and Vronsky, are married in real life.
