The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.

• Mosfilm
• Maya Plisetskaya
• Alexander Godunov
• Vladimir Tikhonov
• Yuri Vladimirov
• Nina Sorokina
• Marianne Sedova
• Aleksandr Sedov
• Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra