Lost BBC period drama of Anna Karenina found starring Sean Connery

From The Daily Telegraph:

"The British public will get the chance to see Connery in an adaptation of one of the great classics of world literature for the first time in 49 years when Anna Karenina comes out on DVD next month.

The prestigious BBC version of Tolstoy’s heavyweight novel was made in 1961, the year before Connery became an international star in Dr No. And Connery, who is 80 next week, played the dashing Russian count Alexis Vronsky, Anna Karenina’s lover.

It was an ambitious, big-budget drama for its time, made in black and white and lasting about two hours, and it helped establish the BBC’s reputation for quality literary adaptations. It was broadcast once on BBC in November 1961, when Britain had only two television channels, and then the recording was stuck on a shelf to gather dust."

Fascinating. This will make the queue, especially as Anna Karenina is one of my favorite novels.