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The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata (, ) 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 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: in his analysis, the root causes for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film)
The Kreutzer Sonata is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Rose based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy.
It is Rose's second collaboration with Danny Huston (after "Ivans XTC") and his third adaptation of a work by Tolstoy, following 1997's "Anna Karenina" and 2003's "Ivans XTC".
"The Kreutzer Sonata" is the name commonly given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 9 in A major. Director Bernard Rose had previously directed