ambassador to Finland Timothy O’Leary, Washington National Opera General Director Rob Ainsley, WNO Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program Director Carol Saunders, wife of Strategic Dialogue Institute founder Hal Saunders John Hanshaw, Director of the Washington Film Institute Dan Russell, U.S.-Russia Business Council President and CEO and Randi Levinas, U.S.-Russia Business Council COO.Īs guests took their seats in the theater, they were greeted by the Russian Embassy’s Cultural Attaché, Daria Anisimova. Students mingled with several Washington VIPs, including Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Chair of the Red Cross and former U.S.

Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story is a brilliant and stunningly beautiful film, and I am delighted that we could premiere it at the Russian Embassy's Tunlaw Theater.” “The ability to share Russian cinema with our students and others ‎is an invaluable tool for teaching Russian history and culture in an authentic and more accurate way. “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.

Penguin anna karenina