Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Nascimento : 1828-09-09, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]

Morte : 1910-11-20

História

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. His fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection (1899).

Perfil

Leo Tolstoy

Filmes

Resurrection
Novel
The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginning of the second part. The places and times change, and so do the people doing the reading. But also, in the middle, real people and voices surface, like Adamo Vergine at his home and Jean François Neplaz in Marseilles. The film searches for the possible faces of Tolstoy’s two protagonists in Oneglia, Procida, and Casalborgone.
Anna Karenina. The Intimate Diary
Story
The film is about unforgivable happiness, about virtue that inspires hatred, about wrong thoughts and the desire to live. And about "the eternal mistake that people make, imagining happiness as the fulfillment of desire." “Anna Karenina. Intimate Diary ”is a bright modern psychological drama, an experimental adaptation of the classics of world literature. The plot of the novel by Leo Tolstoy transferred to modern realities.
Dark as the Night. Anna Karenina
Screenplay
Anna Karenina in modern realities.
Anna Karenina: A História de Vronsky
Novel
Durante a guerra russo-japonesa, em 1904, Sergey Karenin (Kirill Grebenshchikov), chefe de hospital, descobre que um dos oficiais feridos sob sua supervisão é o conde Vronsky (Max Matveev), a pessoa que arruinou sua mãe, Anna Karenina (Elizaveta Boyarskaya). Agora, ele procura maiores informações sobre o amante da mãe e que razão a levou a desistir da vida.
Winter Thaw
Story
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to look outside himself and trust in the goodness of God. This BYUtv original holiday special is based on Leo Tolstoy's short story, "Martin the Cobbler," and stars John Rhys-Davies.
Anna Karenina
Novel
Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.
Dia de Desconto
Story
Basili é um empresário astuto que embarca em uma viagem com Nick no volante. Ao entrar em uma área montanhosa, com condições meteorológicas adversas, eles ficam presos na neve e terão que enfrentar um destino incerto.
Tal Pai, Tal Filho
Story
O lendário cineasta Jack Hussar volta a Hollywood em busca de financiamento para seu novo projeto. Seu retorno envolve bebedeiras, sedução, brigas e um jogo de pôquer redentor. Vinte anos depois, é a vez do filho dele tentar a sorte na cidade.
Anna Karenina
Novel
The Kreutzer Sonata
Novel
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.
Chouga
Novel
Adaptação do romance Anna Karenina, de Leon Tolstói, para os dias de hoje e ambientado em Almaty, no Cazaquistão.
Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna
Self (archive footage)
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.
ivans xtc.
Novel
Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books. We then follow Ivan through the highs, lows, and extreme excesses of his final days.
Anna Karenina
Novel
Anna Karenina é uma mulher jovem e elegante que é casada com Alexei Karenin, um homem rico e nobre, e 20 anos mais velho que ela. Ela se sente infeliz na relação matrimonial, e vive apenas para o seu filho. Uma noite, durante um baile, Anna conhece o charmoso Conde Alexei Vronsky, que logo se encanta por ela e começa a perseguí-la. Inicialmente ela recusa suas investidas, mas depois cede aos sentimentos, e se torna sua amante. Eles são felizes juntos, mas a relação dos dois desanda quando Anna aborta o filho que esperava de Vronsky.
Why?
Author
A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.
Prisioneiro nas Montanhas
Story
Dois soldados russos são capturados por guerrilheiros chechenios na intenção de haver uma troca por um filho de um lider da guerrilha, aprisionado pelo exército russo. Os dois prisioneiros acabam por produzirem laços de amizades com alguns civis da região, mas o conflito não deixará que esses laços durem muito tempo.
Beautiful stranger
Novel
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The first-class carriage may be full of spies, and soon after the train embarks, the man in the next compartment searches Obozow's luggage. A beautiful stranger approaches him, a woman older than he, on a concert tour; a game of cat and mouse ensues with patriotism and emotion sometimes on opposite sides. Can Obozow consummate the affair, reach Stockholm, and maintain his ideals?
War and Peace
Writer
BBC production of 'Sergei Prokofiev (I)"s opera "War and Peace" performed by the Kirov Opera under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
Kreutzer Sonata
Story
The story of a murder out of jealousy. After his release from prison, the perpetrator tells the story of his marriage and tries to understand the reasons for his actions.
Kreytserova Sonata
Writer
A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
A Simple Death
Novel
A Soviet film adaptation of Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich.'
Albert
Novel
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich people. Then Albert meets count Delesov, who tries to change Albert's life. Two different characters, two ways of life confront... Will Albert change? Should he?
Anna Karenina
Novel
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
O Dinheiro
Story
Uma nota falsa de 500 francos é fabricada, e cai nas mãos de um jovem cuja mesada foi cortada. Como num efeito caótico, a nota vai passando de mão em mão, e sua importância vai aumentando, até que explode nas mãos de um empregado de uma petrolífera, que é detido e perde o emprego. Mas a espiral não pára, e esse acontecimento vai crescendo, lenvando-o ao endividamento, vida do crime e assassinato.
أشياء ضد القانون
Author
Raouf gets involved with Azhar in their relationship, graduates and appoints a detective, Raouf abandons Azhar, and marries Rashid's daughter Siham. Azhar marries the pimp Zaghlol, and he forces her to work with him. Raouf surprised Azhar is accused in a case of prostitution. He regrets his abandonment, and stands with her.
The Living Corpse
Story
Father Sergius
Novel
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Martin the Cobbler
Writer
A poor cobbler has a dream in which he hears the Lord promise to visit him. Instead poor people in need of food, clothing, warmth, and understanding come to him. In the end he understands that this is how the Lord visits men today.
Anna Karenina
Novel
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
Caucasian Prisoner
Book
Детство. Отрочество. Юность
Story
Um Grito de Revolta
Novel
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
Семейное счастье
Book
The Living Corpse
Theatre Play
Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.
Scarabea – How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Novel
A Teutonic lecher on vacation has a wager with some local peasants that he can't make a walking circle from sunrise to sunset to secure some coveted land. The middle-aged businessman embarks on his journey only to be slowed down by the beautiful reporter Scarabea. With thoughts of drunkenness and sex on his warped mind, the man tries to circumnavigate the parcel of property. The story is a retelling of an ancient folk tale told by Tolstoy where the initial victim bets his soul to Satan against the land he desires.
Anna Karenina
Novel
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.
Guerra e Paz 4 Pierre Bezukhov
Writer
Parte 4, e última, do mega filme soviético Guerra e Paz (1966), uma adaptação em 4 partes do romance de Leon Tolstoi de 1869. Assim que Moscou começa a ser incendiada pelos russos em retirada, os Rostovs fogem de sua propriedade, levando soldados feridos com eles, e sem perceberem, levam também o príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky. Pierre Bezukhov, vestido como um camponês, tenta assassinar Napoleão, mas é feito prisioneiro. Como os Franceses são forçados a recuar, Pierre marcha por meses com a Grande Armée, até ser libertado por uma incursão de um pequeno destacamento. Os franceses são derrotados pelo general Mikhail Kutuzov na Batalha de Krasnoi. O príncipe Andrei é reconhecido e é levado para sua propriedade. Ele perdoa Natasha em seu leito de morte. Ela se reúne com Pierre e eles se casam quando Moscou está sendo reconstruída.
Guerra e Paz 3 O Ano de 1812
Writer
Parte 3 do mega filme soviético Guerra e Paz (1966), uma adaptação em 4 partes do romance de Leon Tolstoi de 1869. Em 1812, o Exército de Napoleão invade a Rússia. O general Mikhail Kutuzov pede ao príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky que se junte a ele como oficial de sua equipe, mas o príncipe solicita um comando no campo. Pierre Bezukhov procura assistir o próximo confronto entre os exércitos. Durante a Batalha de Borodino, ele se oferece para ajudar em uma bateria de artilharia. A unidade de Bolkonsky espera na reserva, mas ele é atingido por uma granada. Tanto Anatol Kuragin quanto Andrei Bolkosnky, os dois amores de Natasha Rostova, sofrem ferimentos graves. O exército francês é vitorioso e avança sobre Moscou.
Guerra e Paz 2 Natasha Rostova
Writer
Parte 2 do mega filme soviético Guerra e Paz (1966), uma adaptação em 4 partes do romance de Leon Tolstoi de 1869. No final de 1809, Natasha Rostova vai a seu primeiro baile. O príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky se apaixona por ela e pretende se casar com ela, mas seu pai exige que eles esperem. O príncipe viaja para o exterior, e Natasha 'morre' de saudades dele. Mas ela então conhece Anatol Kuragin e esquece do Andrei. No último minuto, ela se arrepende e abandona seus planos de fugir com Anatol. O príncipe Andrei fica sabendo de tudo e declara que seu noivado acabou. Pierre Bezukhov, tentando acalmá-la, de repente, anuncia que a ama.
Guerra e Paz 1 Andrei Bolkonsky
Writer
Parte 1 do mega filme soviético Guerra e Paz (1966), uma adaptação em 4 partes do romance de Leon Tolstoi de 1869. Em São Petersburgo de 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, filho ilegítimo de um nobre rico, é apresentado à alta sociedade. Seu amigo, o príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky, junta-se ao exército imperial russo como ajudante de campo do general Mikhail Kutuzov na Guerra da Terceira Coalizão contra Napoleão.
Guerra e Paz
Novel
Adaptação épica do clássico homônimo da literatura mundial, de autoria de Leon Tolstói. O início do século dezenove é tomado por grandes acontecimentos. Cada vez mais próximas da fronteira russa, as tropas de Napoleão Bonaparte prometem fazer valer os intentos expansionistas de seu líder, trazendo guerra para o solo russo. Enquanto isso, uma complexa história de amor se desenvolve entre a Condessa Natasha Rostova e o Conde Pierre Bezukhov, casado com outra mulher. O filme também foi dividido em 4 episódios.
Posle bala
Short Story
Ivan Vasilyevich is in love with Varenka and is admired by her father, Colonel. But the transformation of a tender loving father from a good-natured colonel into a cruel and ruthless tormentor shocked Ivan so much that his feelings for Varenka quickly cooled.
Anna Karenina
Novel
Adaptation from Tolstoy's novel.
The Cossacks
Novel
Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...
Resurrection
Novel
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
The River of Love
Writer
Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
Agi Murad, o Diabo Branco
Novel
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
Also People
Novel
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep... Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
Polikuschka
Story
Ressurreição
Novel
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
Forbidden Love
Novel
During a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it impossible to stop the situation.
Guerra e Paz
Novel
Durante a invasão do exército de Napoleão à Rússia, a doce Natasha se apaixona pelo conde Pierre Bezukhov, mas este se vê à mercê de um casamento por obrigação com a voluptuosa Helene. Voltando do front, Andrei, amigo de Pierre, recupera a alegria de viver ao se apaixonar por Natasha. Baseado no clássico romance homônimo de Leon Tolstoy.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Short Story
Pózdnychev percebe que seu casamento se baseia apenas na atração física. Sua esposa toca regularmente “A Sonata a Kreutzer” com um violinista, da qual emerge uma nova paixão. A partir desse momento, o marido é consumido pelos ciúmes.
Anna
Original Story
Though her marriage with rich businessman Chan Hak-lit is crumbling, Anna Poon refuses to accept her childhood sweetheart Wong Kei-shu's courtship. Anna's younger sister Mei-na has a crush on Shu and treats Lee Man coldly. When she sees Anna being with Shu, she taunts Anna with stealing who she likes. Anna is hurt and goes back to Chan's house. Chan holds a house party and invites business celebrities. Shu attends it and when tells Anna he loves her when they dance. Anna rejects him and tells him never to see her again. Chan goes to the racecourse. When Shu falls down from a horse, Anna faints. Chan asks Anna what her relationship with Shu is. He warns her not to have any wrongdoing and ruin his reputation. Shu is fine and asks Anna to meet for the last time. Anna cannot turn down him and goes to meets him. Lit miscomprehends the situation and files a divorce. He even forbids Anna to see their daughter. A distressed Anna becomes a victim of love in a conservative society.
Resurrection
Original Story
Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced to becoming a prostitute. In a momentary slip of a struggle, Ah Hing commits manslaughter. Now a qualified lawyer, Fan acquits Ah Hing of the charge, and intends to marry her to redeem his negligence in the past. Ah Hing, however, is determined to pursue an independent life.
Anna Karenina
Writer
The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders of the theater V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.
The Living Corpse
Theatre Play
Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.
Paris Nineteen Hundred
Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy)
Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.
Anna Karenina
Novel
Anna Karenina (Vivien Leigh), uma jovem russa é requisitada por sua irmã, Dolly Oblonsky (Mary Kerridge), para ajudar na conciliação com seu marido, após uma briga entre os dois. Karenina embarca para Moscou a fim de consolar e ajudar a irmã. No trem ela conhece a Condessa Vronsky (Helen Haye), cuja chegada é aguardada por seu filho, Coronel Vronsky (Austin Trevor). Ao chegar na estação, Vronsky e Karenina se apaixonam no instante em que seus olhares cruzam. Eles continuam a se esbarrarem em festas e eventos sociais, até que o sentimento se torna incontrolável e eles decidem se encontrar a sós. No entanto, Karenina é uma mulher casada e eles precisam ter cautela para não serem descobertos.
Lovers Without Love
Novel
This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.
Celos
Novel
Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy.
What Men Live By
Story
A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.
Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Novel
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
Anna Karenina
Novel
Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.
We Live Again
Novel
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
The Woman of the Port
Story
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
Resurrection
Novel
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.
Resurrection
Original Story
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Her Boy
Short Story
Directed by Friedrich Feher.
Redemption
Novel
Feyda is a man of wealth and has many fine qualities, but he is powerless to resist gambling and beautiful women. Feyda falls instantly in love with Lisa, who is engaged to his dear friend Victor.
The White Devil
Novel
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
Kazakebi
Novel
Anna Karenina
Novel
Na Rússia czarista, Anna Karenina apaixona-se pelo oficial Conde Vronsky, abandonando seu marido e filho para virar amante do militar. A tragédia se abate quando Vronsky escolhe sua carreira militar em detrimento à Karenina.
Resurrection
Novel
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Story
We have a liberal, modern Czech flapper bound to a serious and bored husband and don't forget the important fact that the wife has a lover so soon the widening gulf between husband and wife leads to stress and resentment and we get a tormented psychological study of irreconcilable differences that will lead to tragedy.
Die Macht der Finsternis
Theatre Play
Highly theatrical version of Tolstoy's play.
Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
Story
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
Polikushka
Story
"Polikushka" was the only film directed by Aleksandr Sanin, one of Moscow Art Academic Theatre's founders, and is based on Lev Tolstoy's homonym short story. In spite the many differences between the literary oeuvre and its film adaptation it is a remarkable work that is outstanding for its depiction of the cruel realities of Russian society -the harsh life condition of its main character and his family in contrast to the wealth of his mistress;
Die Kreutzersonate
Story
Anna Karenina
Novel
Atonement
Story
Anna Karenina
Novel
The 1918 Hungarian silent version of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
A Corpse Living
Writer
"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.
Father Sergius
Novel
The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.
Der lebende Leichnam
Story
The Living Corpse
Story
A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.
Resurrezione
Novel
Anna Karenine
Novel
The Weakness of Man
Theatre Play
David Spencer (Holbrook Blinn) is a basically good man, but like all men he has a few character flaws. Alas, these flaws deepen into weaknesses, leading to disaster for Spencer and his lady love Janice Lane (Eleanor Woodruff).
Anna Karenina
Novel
Anna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry her once she leave her husband.
Kreutzer Sonata
Novel
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
War and Peace
Novel
An adaptation of the Tolstoy novel.
Die Erkenntnis
Story
The Kreutzer Sonata
Novel
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. 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.
Katyusha
Story
A kabuki film based on Tolstoy's novel Resurrection.
Anna Karenina
Novel
An adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is having an extramarital affair that causes her grave consequences.
Anna Karenina
Writer
Anna Karenina
Book
Countess Anna Karenina is torn between her lover Vronsky, and her husband, Count Karenin. Anna's love to Vronsky causes her much pain and social pressure. Her passion to Vronsky drives Anna to leave her husband, but Vronsky goes to war, leaving her helpless. Anna feels so meaningless and lonely, that she becomes suicidal and throws herself under a train.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Story
Directed by Pyotr Chardynin.
Le Comte Léon Tolstoï
Self (as Comte Léon Tolstoï)
It is almost like meeting the renowned Russian author to see this film, we get such a splendid view of him as he leaves his fine estate, find ourselves within touch of him almost, and near enough to watch his every motion as he bids his secretary good-bye before getting on the train. The view of the surrounding country and the peasant folk who each and every one get a kind look from the author, are also most interesting.
Resurrection
Novel
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Coming to You
Novel
Movie based on Leo Tolstoy's "Three Questions"