La sonate à Kreutzer
In the wake of an important donation from collector François Lemai, we present films on 35 mm prints belonging to the history of Soviet cinema.
During a train discussion about life, love and marriage, Poznyshev reveals that he has murdered his wife. He then begins to tell another passenger his story and the circumstances that led him to kill her. In the process, he talks about the decay of his life before marriage and reveals his most personal thoughts and opinions.
Mikhail Schweitzer
Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer (16 February 1920, Perm, RSFSR – 2 June 2000, Russia) was a Soviet film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. Mikhail Shveitser graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in the directing class of the Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm Studios since 1943. Shveitser was an assistant director of*** Man No 217*** film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Shveitser lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studios only with Mikhail Romm's help. (Wikipedia)
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