1. WLS- Movie Appreciation
Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy

2. Storyline
Student contribution
Background introduction

3. Main characters
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina – Stepan Oblonsky's sister, Karenin's wife and Vronsky's lover.
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky – Lover of Anna
Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky ("Stiva") – a civil servant and Anna's brother.
Princess Darya Alexandrovna Oblonskaya ("Dolly") – Stepan's wife
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin – a senior statesman and Anna's husband, twenty years her senior.
Konstantin Dmitriev itch Levin ("Kostya") – Kitty's suitor and then husband, old friend of Stiva.

4. Nikolai Levin – Konstantin's brother
Sergius Ivanich Koznyshev – Konstantin's half-brother
Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ("Kitty") – Dolly's younger sister and later Levin's wife
Princess Elizaveta ("Betsy") – Anna's wealthy, morally loose society friend and Vronsky's cousin
Countess Lidia Ivanovna – Leader of a high society circle that includes Karenin, and shuns Princess Betsy and her circle. She maintains an interest in the mystical and spiritual
Countess Vronskaya – Vronsky's mother

5. Major themes
Anna Karenina is commonly thought to explore the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, carnal desire and passion, and the agrarian connection to land in contrast to the lifestyles of the

6. Works by Leo Tolstoy
1851 Istoria vcherashchnevo dnya (Accounts of Yesterday)
1852 Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, an autobiographical trilogy
Sevastapol Sketches
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
1884 My Confession
1886 How Much Land Does a Man Need?
1886 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1895 Master and Man
1899 Resurrection

7. Questions for Consideration
1 What impresses you most in this movie?
2 What do you think of the fate of Anna?
3 The famous opening sentence of the original novel is “All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. What do you think of it?
4 What am I? Why am I here? Do you think the narrator finds the answers? How about you?