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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

2025 · 160 min · Music

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw longing for freedom when a new labourer Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and poisons her father-in-law's food. But the increasing radicalism of her desire for self-determination will claim further victims...

Directed by Elisabeth Stöppler · Written by Dmitri Shostakovich

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