The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata

42 mins | Drama | Nov. 2, 1914

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.

The Kreutzer Sonata

42 mins | Drama | Nov. 2, 1914

The Kreutzer Sonata
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.
Producers Thiemann & Reinhardt
Original title Kreitserova sonata
Directors Vladimir Gardin
Writers Vladimir Gardin, Leo Tolstoy

Cast

Boris Orsky

as Poznyshev

Lidiya Sychyova

as Her mother

Mikhail Tamarov

as Leo Tolstoy