Bloom/Connery “Karenina” Found
A long-lost BBC period drama, starring Claire Bloom and Sean Connery (just before his breakthrough as James Bond), has been rediscovered in the corporation’s vaults. It was widely believed it no longer existed. The British public will get the chance to see Connery in an adaptation of one of the great classics of world literature for the first time in 49 years when “Anna Karenina” comes out on DVD next month. None of the movie or TV adaptations is especially satisfying — neither of Garbo’s, not the one with Vivien Leigh, nor that with Sophie Marceau. I’ve never seen the 2000 adaptation for TV with Helen McGrory and Stephen Dillane, and I’d like to.
