Hannah director Joe Wright shifts gears from action to classical literature by teaming with Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom...
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2012
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2009
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2009
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Love turns a woman's life upside down in this contemporary adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Chouga (Ainour...
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2007
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The son of an unemployed schoolteacher turns to counterfeiting as a means of surviving on the streets of Finland in...
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2005
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Bernard Rose directed this look at the sordid underside of the film business and one man's attempts to come to terms with his...
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2002
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Paolo Taviani and his brother Vittorio Taviani wrote and directed this made-for-TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's final novel....
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2001
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In 1978, America's PBS made the wise decision of running the ten-part 1977 British adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's tragic novel...
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2001
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Leo Tolstoy's classic novel is brought to the screen once again in what was the first American-based production of this story...
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1997
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Inspired by the outbreak of the Second World War, Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev crafted his 1942 opera War and Peace - an...
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1991
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In this film, Tolsoy's classic story Father Sergius is translated from 19th century Russia to 19th century Italy. As in the...
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1990
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This dramatic tragedy is taken from the short story by Leo Tolstoy. Vasili (Oleg Yankovsky) recalls his past love affair and...
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1987
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Based on a story of a husband's obsession by Leo Tolstoy, director Gabriela Rosaleva has transformed Tolstoy's misogynist...
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1985
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1985
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The last film by veteran writer/director Robert Bresson, the French crime drama L'Argent (Money) was based on a short story...
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1983
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The Bolshoi Ballet mounts this 1979 production of Rodion Shchedrin's Anna Karenina, which Shchedrin adapted, in turn, from...
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1979
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This ten-hour BBC adaptation of the famous novel Anna Karenina features Nicola Pagett as the title character and Eric Porter...
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1978
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Tormented by his many high ideals and equally numerous failures to live up to them, an elderly Russian nobleman reminisces...
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1978
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Directed by Russian cinematographer Margarita Pilikhina, this is a filmed performance of Anna Karenina by the legendary...
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1974
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Of the many stage, screen, and television adaptations of Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel War and Peace, this multi-episode...
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1972
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Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a...
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1972
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A Teutonic lecher on vacation has a wager with some local peasants that he can't make a walking circle from sunrise to...
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1968
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1968
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After several previous attempts by foreign directors who miss the mark, this Russian film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic...
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1967
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Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk's epic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Voyna i Mir) was the most expensive...
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1967
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This televised adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina originally aired on the BBC 1961. It stars a young...
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1961
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This is the Russian version of Leo Tolstoy's classic tale of a young peasant woman Katya Maslova who is placed on trial for...
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1961
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Only slightly peppered with political propaganda, this standard romantic comedy about a semi-misfit oil worker balances the...
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1961
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Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by the great writer Leo Tolstoy, this engrossing drama is set at the turn of the 20th...
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1961
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Although this uninspired Italian adventure film is loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's tale about a 19th-century clash between...
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1959
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1958
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In...
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1956
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1948
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1948
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In this French drama, based on a story by Tolstoy, the public prosecutor decides to sacrifice himself so that his wife can...
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1940
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It is likely that no Leo Tolstoy story has been filmed as often as his Kreutzer Sonata. This 1938 French version stars Jean...
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1938
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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1935
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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1931
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1931
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The great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin co-stars with popular German leading lady Lil Dagover in this cinemadaptation of Leo...
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1930
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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1930
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1927
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Previously filmed three times (in America, at least), Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel Resurrection was once more brought to the...
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1927
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One of the few pre-Revolution Russian feature films to survive, Father Sergius is an elaborate picturization of a Tolstoy...
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1917
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Having been brought to America by the Fox Film Corporation, Betty Nansen, hailed as the "Sarah Bernhardt of Denmark," was...
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1915
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Believe it or not, this 1915 American version of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was the second full-length treatment of the...
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1915
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1914
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