Keira Knightley in 'Anna Karenina' trailer: Watch here!

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Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is an immense novel, not just in size, but reputation: It’s regarded by many as one of the best (if not outright the best) ever written in any language. So it follows that the first major feature film adaptation of the book since 1997 would look appropriately massive. Keira Knightley — reuniting with her Atonement and Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright — stars as the title Russian aristocrat who’s married to a major statesman (Jude Law) 20 years her senior, but violates the ironclad rules of social decorum by entering into an affair with the dashing calvary officer Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson). The new trailer is filled with opulent, Oscar-baiting costumes and art direction, but the most exciting thing about it may be the final image: a title card reading “Screenplay by Tom Stoppard.”

Check it out below:

Anna Karenina is set to open on Nov. 9, 2012.

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