Anna Karenina (1974)
Directed by Margarita Pilikhina
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Synopsis by Nathan Southern
The Bolshoi Ballet mounts this 1979 production of Rodion Shchedrin's Anna Karenina, which Shchedrin adapted, in turn, from the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy. It co-stars Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov, with choreography by Plisetskaya.
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ballet-dance, extramarital-affair, ill-fated, obsession, officer, peasant, Russian [nationality], star-crossed-lovers
