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1	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Creator/{{MGM}} changed the title to ''Love'' so they could run ads saying "Garbo and Gilbert in ''Love''", a nod to their RealLife romance.
2	* CreatorBacklash: Tolstoy once referred to Anna Karenina as "an abomination that no longer exists for me".
3	* FakeRussian: Happens in a lot of different film adaptations.
4	** The 1927 film has Anna Karenina portrayed by Greta Garbo, who is of Swedish descent, while a mix of American and English actors make up the rest of the cast.
5	** The 1948 film also had an entirely British cast, including Creator/VivienLeigh as the title character, while Count Vronsky and Konstantin Levin were portrayed by Irish actors Kieron Moore and Niall [=MacGinnis=], respectively.
6	** The 1985 film has an entirely English cast, with the exception of Count Vronsky, who was played by American actor Christopher Reeve.
7	** The 1997 Film:
8	*** Anna Karenina is portrayed by Creator/SophieMarceau, who is French.
9	*** Vronsky, Levin, and Karenin are portrayed by English actors Creator/SeanBean, Alfred Molina, and James Fox, respectively.
10	*** Kitty is portrayed by Mia Kirshner, a Canadian actress.
11	** The 2012 film:
12	*** Creator/KeiraKnightley, who is English, plays Anna Karenina.
13	*** Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson and Creator/JudeLaw, both of them English, play Alexei Vronsky and Alexei Karenin, respectively.
14	*** Creator/AliciaVikander, a Swedish actress, plays Kitty Shcherbatskaya.
15	*** Konstantin Levin is portrayed by Creator/DomhnallGleeson, an Irish actor.
16	*** Creator/MatthewMacfadyen, an English actor, plays Oblonsky.
17	*** Dolly Oblonskaya is played by Creator/KellyMacdonald, a Scottish actress.
18	*** Nikolai Levin is played by David Wilmot, an Irish actor.
19	*** Maria Nikolaevna is portrayed by Tannishtha Chatterjee, who is Indian.
20	*** Count Alexander Vronsky is played by Raphaël Personnaz, a French actor.

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