Keira Knightley is Anna Karenina

26/11/12 16:30 CET

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Keira Knightley, who plays Tolstoy’s tragic heroine Anna Karenina, says the story is just as relevant today as when it was written in the late 1800s.

Once again she worked with director Joe Wright, playing the title role of Anna, who in Imperial Russia cheats on her high-ranking government official husband.

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