In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Greta Garbo
as Anna Karenina

Fredric March
as Count Vronsky

Freddie Bartholomew
as Sergei

Maureen O'Sullivan
as Kitty

May Robson
as Countess Vronsky

Basil Rathbone
as Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

Reginald Owen
as Stiva

Phoebe Foster
as Dolly

Reginald Denny
as Yashvin

Gyles Isham
as Konstantin Demitrievitch Levin