The Kreutzer Sonata
MovieTitle | Крейцерова соната |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Nov 2, 1914 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Vladimir Gardin |
Production country | Russia |
Production companies | Thiemann & Reinhardt |
Run time | 42 min. |
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.