Bearing in mind that the film-makers' intention was to "update" Anna Karenina , Channel 4's marketing department certainly plumped for a curiously retrograde advertising line. Commanded by the publicity to watch Channel 4's series with a view to weighing up whether Anna Karenina is a "tragic heroine" or a "selfish whore", perhaps we would do better to ponder over the possibility that there is more of a grey area between these poles in contemporary Britain than there was in 19th-century St Petersburg. For, curiously, even moralistic, religious Tolstoy gave her far more benefit of the doubt than this series seems willing to, judging from the first episode. He was quite certain that her behaviour was entirely wrong, and deserved the most extreme punishment.

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Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the scenes of suicide and the death of a horse, mentioned above. In addition to the violent scenes and scary visual images mentioned above, this movie has some scenes that could scare or disturb children in this age group. For example:.