''The Kreutzer Sonata'' (russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreytserova sonata) is a 1987
Soviet
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drama film
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directed by
Mikhail Shveytser
Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR ( ...
, based on
Leo Tolstoy's 1889 novella ''
The Kreutzer Sonata
''The Kreutzer Sonata'' (russian: Крейцерова соната, ) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is a ...
''.
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Cast
* Oleg Yankovsky
Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; 23 February 1944 – 20 May 2009) was a Soviet and Russian actor who excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he beca ...
as Poznyshev
* Aleksandr Trofimov as The Fellow Passenger
* Irina Seleznyova
Irina (Cyrillic: Ирина) is a feminine given name of Ancient Greek origin, commonly borne by followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is derived from Eirene (Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη), an ancient Greek goddess, personification of pe ...
as Liza
* Dmitriy Pokrovsky as Trukhachevsky
* Alla Demidova as The Lady
* Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mo ...
as Liza's mother
* Aleksandr Kalyagin as passenger
* Mikhail Gluzsky
Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Глу́зский; 20 November 1918 – 15 June 2001) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He starred in the 1972 film, ''Monologue'', which was entered ...
as passenger
* Olga Tokareva as Liza's sister
* Nina Agapova
Nina Fyodorovna Agapova (russian: Ни́на Фёдоровна Ага́пова; 30 May 1926 – 19 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian actress.Ruskino.ru.Nina Agapova
Life and career
Agapova was born in Moscow in May 1926. She graduated f ...
as Leocadia Petrovna
* Yuri Volyntsev
Yuri Vitalyevich Volyntsev (russian: Юрий Витальевич Волынцев; 28 April 1932 – 9 August 1999) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).Русский драматический те ...
as gentleman in public places
References
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1987 films
Soviet drama films
Mosfilm films
Films based on The Kreutzer Sonata
Films directed by Mikhail Shveytser
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