Focus Features has released a new featurette for the upcoming epic romance Anna Karenina, Joe Wright‘s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of the same name. Keira Knightley stars as Anna Karenina in her third collaboration with the director. Knightley is starring opposite Jude Law, as Anna's husband Aleksei Karenin; and Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), as Count Vronsky.
Here's the synopsis for the film
The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement,” is a bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (“Shakespeare in Love”). The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her.
Anna Karenina, also starring Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Michelle Dockery, Emily Watson, and Olivia Williams, comes to theaters November 16th, 2012.
