The Kreutzer Sonata
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany
Set in Tsarist Russia. A happily married woman falls in love with her husband's cousin through their mutual love of music. She decides to stay with her husband, but he has become jealous and murders her. He is acquitted but to be free and to go on living is the harder punishment.
Direction Veit Harlan
Cast Lil Dagover · Peter Petersen · Albrecht Schönhals · Hilde Körber · Walter Werner · Wolfgang Kieling · Paul Bildt · Heinz Berghaus · Ilse Cotence · Margot Erbst · Hugo Flink · Gabriele Hoffmann · Edith Linn · Paul Adalbert Ebelt · Leo Peukert · Franz Pollandt · Werner Siegert · Armin Schweizer · Lotte Spira · Max Wilmsen · Bruno Ziener · Ellen Becker · Friedl Hampter · Gertrud Hartwig · Inge Stratner · Mussia Gürtler · Peter Busse · Fritz Draeger · Paul Ludwig Frey · Werner Pledath · Ingeborg Carlsson · Günther Lüders
Soundtrack Ernst Roters
Screenplay Eva Leidmann · Leo Tolstoy
Cinematography Otto Baecker
Original title Die Kreutzersonate
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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