The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film)


The Kreutzer Sonata is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Rose based on the 1889 novella by Leo Tolstoy.
It is Rose's second collaboration with Danny Huston 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 Immortal Beloved, a film about the life of Beethoven, in which there is a major scene that features a performance of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.