Haven't you, my darling?
Anna.
Alexei!
What is it?
I couldn't bear not to see you before the race.
What were you thinking about?
Tell me.
I'm pregnant.
Oh, my love.
Well, love was never a game to us.
Here's an end to living in corners,
existing day to day on lies.
Yes.
Now we can be together.
How can we, Alexei?
Tell Karenin everything.
Do you think my husband will make you a present of me?
Leave him.
Leave him and be your mistress?
Yes, run away.
I would never see my son again.
The laws are made by husbands and fathers.
What, then?
I'll never forgive myself for your unhappiness.
Unhappiness?
I'm like a starving beggar who's been given food.
L, unhappy?
No.
This is my happiness.
Serozha!
Serozha, I'm coming to get you!
Where are you?
Serozha!
Where are you?
How are you, young man?
Your tutor doesn't seem to be in evidence.
Yah!
Alexei.
You got away at last. Can you stay?
Why?
Go and find Vastly Lukich.
I have to change.
Princess Betsy is sending her trap for me.
Would you like to come? She's taking me to watch the race.
Races, surely.
No, I'll come on later. Then I must get back to town.
Yes!
Princess! Princess!
A bet! Who do you fancy in the next?
Kusolev.
I'm on Vronsky. Pair of gloves?
Done.
Alexander Vronsky.
You are an exquisite creature.
You really ought to be the spoils of victory today.
Yah! Yah!
Go, Frou-Frou! Go!
Go!
Go, Frou-Frou! Go!
Alexei!
I'm here.
Oh.
I'm here.
Get up!
Her back is broken.
You know...
They say the Emperor disapproves of the races.
The danger of injury.
But I...
What?
I'm saying I think there's a value in manly sport, for the military.
I don't understand.
In my opinion, it's not the sport itself. It's the spectacle.
It's making a cruel spectacle out of...
What are you talking about?
I have to tell you... Yes.
I have to tell you, you behaved improperly today.
How is that?
By making plain your feeling when one of the riders fell.
Your conduct was improper.
It must not occur again. I have said it before.
You will say my concern is unnecessary and ridiculous.
You are my wife.
I'm wrong to think that.
Yes?
Perhaps I was mistaken...
No.
You were not mistaken.
I love him.
I am his mistress.
Do what you like to me.
Wait. Please, move away.
I will not have a scandal. Therefore, you will not see this man again.
You will behave in a way that nothing is known against you
by society or by the servants.
In return, you will keep the privileges of a wife, and the duties.
Tomorrow you will return home. That is all.
Are you hurt?
What's happened?
I told him I'm your mistress.
He thinks I can give you up and go on living.
No. You cannot.
Time for bed?
It was pleasant to hear you being congratulated on your husband.
Not that I care for decorations, but...
Alexei, I can't. I'm sorry.
Oh.
But I'm his wife, now.
I'm having his child.
Tell me what I did to deserve this.
Halt!
How many mowers is it, Theodore?
Forty-two, Master.
In your father's time, it was work for two days for 30 men.
Though he never picked up a scythe himself.
The men don't like me for it.
They like what they're used to.
It settles me.
How is that, Master?
When I'm mowing, I don't ask myself why I'm here.
You're here to be Master Konstantin Dmitrievich.
As it's always been, by the grace of God.
My father owned you, Theodore.
Owned you like chattels to be bought and sold.
Was that by the grace of God?
It was.
That's my youngest you were looking at, there.
His young life is perilous now since the freedom came and work must be found.
They look happier than I've ever been.
Is it living simply that I'm looking for?
I'm expected.
No.
I will not live like this.
This waiting for hour after hour,
not knowing when I'll ever see you again.
Sorry.
It's my demon. I can't help it.
You wrote that you were ill.
Don't worry, it won't be for long.
Stop. No, it's true.
I was told it in a dream.
There. It was only a bad dream.
Yes, and I'm only going to die having your baby.
That's all nonsense. Tell me it is.
You love me, only me.
Your note said your husband would be out.
He was late. It serves him right.
And you...
Why do you call him my husband?
He isn't my husband, he's a clock.
But it was awkward. My honour. You made an agreement.
Do you think of your honour when you're sharing whores with your Colonel?
Your demon again?
I'll be glad to die before you start to hate me.
Anna.
Put your hand there.
You can feel him move.
I respectfully ask Minister Karenin
whether his proposals for the regulation of these colourful gypsy tribes
of these scholarly, God-fearing Jews, and of...
But I'm afraid I've lost the Minister's attention.
Who is here?
Only Madame, Your Excellency.
I wanted to see him because...
I do not wish to know why a woman wants to see her lover.
What are you doing?
I want his letters!
lam going to Moscow tomorrow, and then the provinces
with a commission to investigate conditions among the Jews and gypsies,
whose conditions I infinitely prefer to my own.
I will not return to this house until divorce has driven you into the street.
Meanwhile, my son will be sent to live with my eldest sister.
No, Alexei, please. Please, leave me Serozha!
Do you think I would let you have my son?
You are depraved. A woman without honour.
I thank God the curse of love is lifted from me.
I need your advice.
Come on, come on! Yes, yes.
Right, after you, after you.
Are we late? Of course, you're late.
I'm Countess Nordston.
We nearly met at the Shcherbatskys' last winter.
Come into the fold.
Come on.
You've been waiting for me. Forgive me.
Kitty is here.
Konstantin, what a long time since we saw each other.
Since you saw me, but I saw you not so long ago.
When?
You were driving to Ergoshovo.
I was at Kashin for the haymaking.
Oh, but why didn't you...
I'm so glad to see you.
You're just the same.
I hope not.
I was young and silly in those days.
Months and months ago.
And you haven't changed.
No. I haven't.
Permit me to announce, um, soup Marie-Louise carp
with asparagus and roast beef.
I went to the market in person.
An extra place.
I've come to tell you our connection must be severed.
I'm going to divorce your sister.
Divorce?
Oh, dear me, what are you talking about?
Well, don't be in a hurry. Stay to dinner.
And later, you can talk it over with Dolly.
Prince Oblonsky, everything is over between our families.
Alexei, divorce is one thing. Dinner is quite another.
You Petersburgers think yourselves so de bon ton
compared with dull, old-fashioned Moscow.
But we know how to do things.
Only the other day,
I hear Vasya Pryachnikov fought a duel with Kvitsky and killed him.
Well, what...
What was the challenge about?
Pryachnikov's wife, naturally.
It was a matter of honour, defending a woman's honour.
Sounds like barbarism to me. What if the lover had killed the husband?
Would that have preserved the wife's honour, too?
Still, not many of us can say our lover died for love.
Love?
"Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife."
Would you die for love, Konstantin Dmitrievich?
I would. But not for my neighbour's wife.
An impure love is not love to me.
To admire another man's wife is a pleasant thing,
but sensual desire indulged for its own sake is greed,
a kind of gluttony,
and a misuse of something sacred, which is given to us
so that we may choose the one person with whom to fulfil our humanness.
Otherwise, we might as well be cattle.
Ah! An idealist!
But she will be nobody's wife.
She'll be ruined.
I tried to save her. She chose ruin.
Alexei Alexandrovich.
Look at me.
You will have no peace of mind until you forgive her.
It was Anna who taught me that.
I do not wish to forgive.
I'm not a cruel man.
I've never hated anyone.
But I hate her with all my soul
for all the wrong she has done me.
Now, it is your turn to play us something, Countess.
I thought you'd never ask.
Very good.
Since we last met,
there is something I have often wanted to ask you.
What is that?
This.
Do...
Not...
Did.
Did not.
The last word is "never."
I know what it says.
Then.
But now?
Can you forgive
and forget?
I never stopped.
Why doesn't he come?
He is kind. He will forgive me.
Her fever is higher.
I want Alexei. Why doesn't he come?
Give me some water. No, I mustn't.
It isn't good for my little girl.
Or let her have a nurse, yes.
Don't bring her here because Alexei is coming
and it will hurt him to see her.
He's come, my dear. Look there.
Her deliverance is still in God's hands.
You think he won't forgive me but you don't know him.
No one knows him except me.
I'm not afraid of him, now.
I'm afraid of death, though.
Oh.
You poor man.
Let him come closer.
Alexei.
Look at my husband.
He's a saint.
Take his hand.
Thank God.
You must leave now.
I promise to send for you if she asks for you.
I don't know what happened to me.
I forgive you. I forgive Anna.
My soul is filled with joy.
I will remain with her and look after her forever.
Come now.
Look at you.
You look like what you've become. A laughingstock.
I fancy you will be asked to leave the regiment.
I would like you to go, Maman.
I'll go when I'm ready to go.
A little affair with a married woman
puts a finishing touch to a young man's education.
But this morbid, selfish obsession...
You've publicly humiliated yourself
and dishonoured a man who has devoted his life to Russia.
So you'd better come back to Moscow with me.
You're finished here.
And there was her husband, wearing her best ball gown.
Rouge all over his face.
Ma chére, le scandale!
But I'd better tell you some regimental news.
Who is here?
Princess Elisabeth Federovna Tverskaya, Your Excellency.
I don't want to see him.
But surely your husband wouldn't stop...
I'm so glad to see you.
You look feverish.
We've been talking too much, so I'm going.
Princess Betsy came to tell me...
I don't want to hide anything from you.
Count Vronsky asked to come to say goodbye. He's going away.
I've told him that I can't receive him.
Well, goodbye, my treasure.
I agree with you.
As he is going away, there's no need for Count Vronsky to come.
I just said so, so there's no need to repeat it.
But it is for you to decide.
Yes, and I decided.
Then I am very glad that...
That we agree, so perhaps we can stop talking about it.
Of course. Ls there anything I can do for you?
Yes, can you please, please, please stop cracking your knuckles?
I'm a bad woman.
But I can't breathe.
Your kindness, which I can't repay, and your forgiveness...
You begged me for my forgiveness.
But I didn't die, and now I have to live with it.
Then what? What do you want?
Do you know what you want? Do you want to see Count Vronsky?
Not to say goodbye.
I can't hear.
Not to say goodbye.
You would be lost. Irretrievably lost.
You would have no position.
And worse, if we divorce, you would be the guilty party.
That means you cannot legally remarry.
Your union with Count Vronsky would be illegitimate,
as would your daughter, who now has the protection of my name.
And this is what you want?
It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
You forget something.
Count Vronsky and I love each other.
And this love sanctifies a criminal folly?
All I know is that I sent him away
and it's as if I'd shot myself through the heart!
I see.
And what of Serozha?
I would die for him,
but I won't live like this for him.
When he knows of love, he will forgive me.
Then I must choose the smaller sin.
Vronsky has robbed me of my cloak and I will give him my coat.
No, I...
My darling. My darling.
You look so pale.
Oh, my darling.
We'll go south to the sea air and sunshine.
Is it all right? Sit down a minute.
I want to see everything.
A moment.
And now I'm doing kitchenmaid's work
because Nadya's parents won't let her set foot in the house.
And who can blame them? It's indecent.
It's Konstantin.
Yes, good.
The doctor here is useless.
Get me one from Moscow.
Where did you go?
I asked for you everywhere when I was getting married.
I'm sorry. I couldn't leave him.
Yes. My wife...
You can't stay now.
I will nurse him with Agafia.
The woman will find somewhere in the village.
You won't see her.
She knows it is impossible to meet you.
It is a torment to me that I've brought you under the same roof
as this unfortunate... As this fallen...
And in your precious, delicate condition.
Oh, Kostya.
Good. A clean nightshirt and sheets.
A towel and a clean pail of warm water.
Wait.
And bring the perfume bottle,
in the outside pocket of my handbag.
Twenty-one to Stremov, four to Karenin. The motion is carried.
Alexei, they're back.
Here, in St Petersburg.
She has written to me.
To you?
They think I don't have the right to refuse.
It's the boy's birthday.
My friend,
you would be blowing on the embers of a fire which must be allowed to die.
Let me write to her.
I'm here to see Serozha.
Madame?
I beg your pardon, Your Excellency.
No, I've come to see Serozha.
Serozha.
Maman?
Oh.
My dear little boy.
I knew you would come.
Today is my birthday.
I know.
Are you crying?
No, I won't cry.
Where did you go, Maman?
I don't know.
Everywhere. The south.
I thought about you every day.
And I thought about you every day.
And you must love Papa. He's better than I am.
No one in the whole world is better than you.
No.
Where's Anya?
She's still asleep.
Should I take your coat?
Are you feeling unwell, madam?
I'm not sleeping.
I can send out for something.
Yes.
Why are you in the dark?
Yashvin is going to call. You remember him.
Are you going out?
To where?
To whom?
What's the matter?
I didn't know what happened to you.
But I told you yesterday. My brother.
Does it take all day to meet your brother?
Does he need you more than I do?
What's happened?
Well, Alexander agreed to everything.
Mother's house in Moscow will go to him,
and the country estate will be our new home.
As soon as the divorce.
Karenin hasn't answered your letter yet?
You're the very first person to call on me since our return.
I received a note from Princess Betsy
asking me to call on her between 6:30 and 8:00.
Or was it 7:00?
But perhaps you'll meet at the opera tonight.
I would love to be there if I could get a box.
Madame, your box is number four.
You'll find me there with Princess Myagkaya.
Will you come, Vronsky?
Well... I see why Alexei is so fond of you.
You know you can't go to the theatre.
Annushka! For heaven's sake.
A bath! I'll come in and choose a dress.
Anna, I implore you.
I'm not ashamed of who I am or what I've done.
Are you ashamed for me?
Why don't you book a room at the hotel?
Aren't we together?
Have you changed towards me?
It's because I love you and care about you.
If that's the case, then I don't know why you aren't coming with me.
That would make it worse.
You're afraid.
Well, I'm not.
Should we visit, or stay put?
Stay put.
Minister! Congratulations.
Come in for a moment.
Princess Sorokina and her daughter.
They're from Moscow, neighbours of Count Vronsky's mother.
Quite well off. No sons. She's a widow.
My dear, I'm a sales catalogue.
Alexei.
You'll come up to see us afterwards?
I'll talk to Varya.
Will you call on Anna?
Oh. Alexei. I'm fond of...
For God's sake!
Anna isn't a criminal.
I'd call on her if she'd only broken the law.
But she broke the rules.
Who has made the decor? Haven't we got a programme?
Colonel, would you be so kind?
Of course.
Please, I would be honoured if you would take mine.
Thank you. How very...
It's a disgrace.
Hush, dear. A common courtesy.
Everyone's looking.
Let them look! Fetch my cloak.
What are we coming to?
It's an insult to decency. Take me home.
Hush. I beg you, my dear. It was only a word or two.
I have a word or two for some people
one didn't expect to be rubbing shoulders with.
She has a nerve, flaunting herself like a slut in society.
Yes, why don't you?
Rescue her and put your seal on the fiasco.
Alexei,
you see why she must divorce.
Marriage will solve everything. When will it be?
As far as I'm concerned, she's my wife.
As you saw, she isn't.
We're going to Moscow, then to my place in the country.
That sounds like a good idea.
But, for a day or two, Anna will be at home.
Then...
I'll say goodbye now.
Well, you had an excellent night.
Does your mother want you to marry the widow or the child?
Either one. Don't joke about it.
If you loved me, you would have locked me in to stop me going!
Yes, it was my fault.
I won't sleep.
I know how to make you sleep.
Anna, I am very glad to see you.
Are you well? How is your little one?
Stiva wanted to invite you and Count Vronsky to the house,
but it's impossible.
No, I understand.
No. No, you don't.
Kitty and her husband are with us.
She's in Moscow to have the baby.
Kitty! Tell her how pleased I am.
Perhaps I'll wait a year or two.
Love.
Yes, love.
Don't you disapprove of me for what I've done?
No. I wish I'd done the same.
But no one asked me.
Well, I wouldn't have been brave enough.
Stiva, you know,
he doesn't change.
Like all men, I suppose.
I had an inspiration.
Why do we have to wait here?
Why can't we wait in the country?
I don't want to hear any more about a divorce or think about it.
Good, I'm bored here. When should we go?
If I bore you here, I'll bore you in the country.
I didn't say you bore me, Moscow bores me. When should we go? Tomorrow?
I can't be ready by tomorrow.
The day after, then. If you like.
No, wait, that's Sunday. I have to see Maman.
That's 20 minutes away on the train.
You could go to see her tomorrow.
Or was it that you wanted to spend Sunday with Princess Sorokina?
Please. Don't spoil everything.
I can't see Maman tomorrow because she won't have read the papers she has to sign.
In that case, let's not bother.
I'll leave on Sunday or not at all. That's absurd.
It's absurd to you because you have no understanding of my life here.
Anna. No, you've stopped loving me.
You've given up everything for me and it's turned you against me.
Why lie about it? Stop!
I put off our departure for a day or two and you tell me I don't love you.
Because I've been living off your love and there's none left.
So this is over. Finished.
I'm sorry.
I don't mind when we go.
I'll telegraph Maman. We'll go on Sunday.
I'll do anything you want.
You should leave me. I don't want to. I love you.
Why?
You can't ask "why" about love.
So, will you be all packed?
I'll be out today making the arrangements.
Is that your way of telling me you'll be at your mother's
with that simpering little princess?
No. I'll be at my lawyer's, waiting for some documents.
Then I'm having dinner to say goodbye to old comrades.
I know what that means.
My God, this is unendurable!
I can invite them here, if you like.
Thank you, but if I'm not fit to dine in society, I won't eat with the band.
Who was the telegram from?
I didn't show you because Stiva keeps telegraphing what we already know.
Karenin promises nothing, but will consider...
I told you I don't care about the divorce, so why hide the telegram?
Is there anything you wish to say to me?
So it's the child.
She brought papers from Maman.
Anna.
No.
Oh, God.
Forgive me.
I'll be buying in feed before winter's over.
Well, you don't press people hard, but you live rightly.
For your soul, not your belly.
How do we know what's rightly?
Just by knowing it. How else?
But I believe in reason.
Reason. Was it reason that made you choose your wife?
I came looking for you.
I understood something.
What did you understand?
He smiled at me.
He's very advanced for his age.
What did you understand?
I'm so proud of you.
Night-night.
And you, too.
Good night, my darling boy.
Anya!