Anna Karenina: Directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi. With Tatyana Samoylova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky.
Frustrated by life, deceived by his wife who had cheated on him, exhausted by a long separation from Russia this is how the hero looks at the beginning of the film.
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a wealthy aspiring singer who cannot carry a tune, mistakes shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Leonid Utyosov) for the famous Paraguayian conductor Costa Fraschini.