Anna Karenina (2009)
Tolstoy's tale of a woman torn between her lover and her marriage.
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Alika languishes in jail. Yet hope may be in sight for her, as a well-known director is touring Russian prisons, hoping to find the perfect woman to play the lead role in a new version of Anna Karenina.
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