The Kreutzer Sonata (1987 film)
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a 1987 Soviet
film
directed by Mikhail Shveytser, based on Leo Tolstoy's
novella The Kreutzer Sonata
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Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by Mikhail Shveytser, based on Leo Tolstoy's
Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
novella The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage...
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Cast
- Oleg Yankovskiy - Poznyshev
- Aleksandr Trofimov - The Fellow Passenger
- Irina Seleznyova - Liza
- Dmitriy Pokrovskiy - Trukhachevsky
- Alla DemidovaAlla DemidovaAlla Sergeyevna Demidova is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre. She was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1977.- Biography :...
- The Lady - Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
- Aleksandr Kalyagin
- Mikhail GluzskyMikhail GluzskyMikhail Gluzsky was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1939 and 2001. He starred in the 1972 film, Monologue, which was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival...
- Olga Tokareva
- Natalia Usmanova