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The Living Corpse (1929)
Directed by Fyodor Otsep
Drama · 1h 22m
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.
Cast
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Fyodor Protasov
Maria Jacobini
Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova
Viola Garden
Sasha, Yelizaveta's sister
Julia Serda
Anna Pavlovna
Nato Vachnadze
Masha, gypsy girl
Gustav Diessl
Karenin
Vladimir Uralskiy
Petushkov
Vera Maretskaya
Pretty lady
Daniil Vvedenskiy
Artemyev
Porfiri Podobed
Priest
Pyotr Repnin
Boris Barnet
Pickpocket
Crew
- Director
- Fyodor Otsep
- Writer
- Boris Gusman, Anatoli Marienhof
- Director of Photography
- Anatoli Golovnya, Phil Jutzi
- Editor
- Vsevolod Pudovkin, Fyodor Otsep
Details
- Original title
- Живой труп
- Release date
- 1929-02-14
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Germany, Soviet Union
- Production
- Mezhrabpomfilm, Prometheus-Film-Verleih