Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Film The Banishment as the New Context of Lev Tolstoy’s Novel Anna Karenina

Key Points

• The aim is to compare Zvyagintsev's film with Tolstoy's novel to uncover cultural parallels.
• Comparative analysis of Zvyagintsev's film and Tolstoy's novel.
• Application of cultural memory theories by Erll, Lachmann, and Assmann.
• Exploration of analogies and contextual relevance between the two works.
• Identified multiple analogies between the film and the novel.
• Demonstrated the film as a cultural archive reflecting Russian literary tradition.
• Showed how the film presents the novel's themes in a contemporary context.