[Movie Script]Anna Karenina

                                          ANNA KARENINA


Written by
Tom Stoppard
Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
          INT. POKROVSKOE--NIGHT



CLOSE--Expert fingers--female, unlovely, capable--shape a small lump of

dough which, with some shreds of cabbage, becomes a filled bun called a pirozhok . . .

which is now placed on a baking tray to join rows of pirozhoki ready for the oven.
CLOSE-- One hand opens the oven, and, mittened by an apron, removes

a tray of perfectly baked pirozhoki, which the other hand replaces with the

fresh tray . . . slightly burning itself on a knuckle.
                         TITLE OVER:

                          FEBRUARY 1872

           POKROVSKOE, KONSTANTIN LEVIN'S ESTATE

           300 MILES SOUTH OF MOSCOW:


          INT. KITCHEN, POKROVSKOE, SAME TIME--NIGHT


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