Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Directed by Elisabeth Stöppler

With Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Jussi Myllys, Izabela Matula, Sergey Polyakov and Anke Krabbe

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...