The Kreutzer Sonata (1937 film)

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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Directed by Veit Harlan
Written by
Produced by Georg Witt
Starring
Cinematography Otto Baecker
Edited by Walter von Bonhorst
Music by Ernst Roters
Production
companies
  • Georg Witt-Film
  • UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 11 February 1937 (1937-02-11)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

The Kreutzer Sonata (German : Die Kreutzersonate) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Lil Dagover, Peter Petersen and Albrecht Schoenhals. [1] It was based on the 1889 novella of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.

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The film's art direction was by Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller.

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  1. Rentschler p. 167

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