Anna Karenina (2012) Leo Tolstoy is considered the greatest novelist of all time and his novel 'Anna Karenina', the greatest novel ever written. His earlier work, 'War and Peace' does not qualify as a story as it is classified as a philosophical discussion. Tolstoy is one who believes that stories should not just have their entertainment value but need to stimulate the mind to think. His other story, 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' is about a dying magistrate as he evaluates his life on earth trapped on his deathbed as his family care for him as if he is just recovering from a minor ailment. Tolstoy can be said to be the spark that became the hero of non-violent movements of MK Gandhi and Rev Martin Luther King Jr. The novel 'Anna Karenina' had been adapted to the silver screen many times. This 2012 version is a British one with Kiera Knightley brilliantly cast as Anna. The scenes were quite peculiar in that they appear to move from one set to another i...
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