"Anna Karenina", Tolstoy's account of a woman in the upper ranks of society, trapped in a loveless marriage, remains one of the most moving stories ever told. Croatian theatre maker Oliver Frljić – known from Dresden to Vienna for his visually stunning and provocative productions – brings his sensitive and textually accurate account of this moving story to the stage, with the great multicultural ensemble of the Berlin Gorki Theatre. But then, suddenly, a figure from another work, the impoverished and desperate Varvara from Dostoyevsky's "Poor Folk", presents Anna with a totally surprising choice...