(Clarence Brown, US 1935, 95 min., 35mm)
Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo) is the wife of Czarist official Karenin (Basil Rathbone) in nineteenth-century Russia. While she attempts to dissuade her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, she becomes infatuated with an officer in the military, Count Vronsky (Fredric March). Once her affair goes public, it ruins her marriage and position in society, which prohibits her from seeing her own son, Sergei. Anna Karenina is based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.