Overview

A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.

Genres

Cast

Markéta Hrubešová

Kateřina

Galina Vishnevskaya

Kateřina (singing voice)

Michal Dlouhý

Sergei

Nicolai Gedda

Sergei (singing voice)

Petr Haničinec

Boris

Václav Neckář

Sinowi

Stanislav Zindulka

Schäbiger Mann

Václav Sloup

Hausknecht

Jan Skopeček

Mühlenarbeiter

Jiří Pomeje

Kutscher

Miroslav Moravec

Pope

Jan Vlasák

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