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The Kreutzer Sonata (1914)

The Kreutzer Sonata (1914)

Drama
Release Date: 1914, November 2
Directors: Vladimir Gardin
Countries: Russia
Production: Thiemann & Reinhardt
Cast: Lydia Sycheva, Evgeniya Uvarova, Mikhail Tamarov, Boris Orsky

Overview:

The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife.