Anna Karenina (1915 film)

Anna Karenina
Newspaper advertisement for film, 1915
Directed by	J. Gordon Edwards
Written by	Clara Beranger
Based on	Anna Karenina 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Betty Nansen Edward José
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	April 1, 1915 (1915-04-01)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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 1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy. 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, her infidelity causes her social peers to ostracize her. In isolation she becomes possessive and even paranoid. Untrustworthy herself, she cannot trust her lover and her mental and emotional instability lead eventually to her suicide.

Cast

• Betty Nansen as Anna Karenina
• Edward José as Baron Alexis Karenin
• Richard Thornton as Prince Vronsky
• Stella Hammerstein

Preservation

With no prints of Anna Karenina located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.

See also

• List of lost films
• 1937 Fox vault fire

Bibliography

• Krefft, Vanda. The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox. HarperCollins, 2017.

External links

• Anna Karenina at IMDb
• Anna Karenina at the TCM Movie Database
• Anna Karenina at AllMovie
• Anna Karenina at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films