![]() ![]() ![]() “We are very grateful to Karen Shaknazarov for his support of the Carmel Institute,” said Institute founder Susan Carmel. Karenin must know: What pushed his mother to the edge of her senses, and the ultimate decision of suicide? Vronsky agrees-at first, hesitatingly-to share his side of the story with her son.īefore the film, guests enjoyed a sumptuous candlelit buffet of Russian delicacies and holiday drinks-including hot cider with gingerbread sticks-all set in a snowy winter scene with a red-carpet arrival and picture backdrops featuring scenes from the movie. The hospital’s chief surgeon, Sergey Karenin, learns that wounded officer Count Vronsky is the same man who once had a doomed love affair with his mother, Anna Karenina. Set in the decades following the original events of Tolstoy’s novel, Vronsky’s Story hinges on a chance encounter at a Russian military hospital in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. On November 28, American University’s Carmel Institute of Russian Culture & History screened Shakhnazarov’s sweeping romantic epic to a full house of cinema enthusiasts at the Russian Embassy’s Tunlaw Theater. They are instead spoken by Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story, a new film by renowned Russian director-and General Director of Mosfilm, Russia’s legendary studio-Karen Shakhnazarov. But the words are nowhere to be found in the novel Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy would doubtless agree with this enigmatic observation from one of his most famous fictional creations, Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky. ![]()
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