Anna Karenina

Award winning adaptation of the Tolstoy classic, often called one of the greatest love stories ever told, with Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone and Maureen O’Sullivan., In this filmization of Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Greta Garbo plays the sheltered wife of Czarist official Rathbone. Intending to dissuade Rathbone’s brother from a life of debauchery, Garbo is sidetracked by her own fascination with a dashing military officer. However, this indiscreet liaison ruins Garbo’s position in 19th-century Russian society., Anna Karenina (Garbo) an aristocratic, married young mother leads a life at the pinnacle of Imperial Russian society that leaves her lonely and unfulfilled., Leo Tolstoy’s tragedy, set in tsarist Russia, stars Greta Garbo as a woman married to an indifferent husband and finding herself caught in a tragic love affair with a dashing count. Her indiscretions leave her permanently separated from her beloved son.