From Battlefield to Boudoir

Organised by : Chichester Cinema

Great novels rarely make great films so goes the received wisdom. But, in the right hands, the leap from page to screen can be accomplished magnificently, without crashing to the ground, like Vronsky in Anna Karenina. 

And when these hands belong to Garbo, or Vivien Leigh or Audrey Hepburn, who would bet against them? 

In this talk, Patrick Hargood, Cinema Education Officer, will look back at some of the big screen adaptations of arguably the greatest of all novelists, with a plethora of memorable clips from different versions of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and many others, including Tolstoys shorter fiction. 

We will also consider The Last Station, the 2009 film about the authors last days, starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren. During the course of the morning we will circumnavigate the globe, covering films from Hollywood, the UK, Europe, Japan and Russia itself, in search of the consummate Tolstoy adaptation.