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The Living Corpse (1929)

1h 22m

Running Time

February 14, 1929
Release Date

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The Living Corpse (1929)

Name: The Living Corpse
Genre: Drama
Released: 1929-02-14

1h 22m

Running Time

February 14, 1929
Release Date

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Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Maria Jacobini

Viola Garden

Julia Serda

Nato Vachnadze

Gustav Diessl

Fyodor Otsep

Director / Writer

Vera Maretskaya

Prostitute

Phil Jutzi

Director of Photography

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Artem'ev (The Good Spirit)

Leo Tolstoy

Theatre Play

Anatoli Marienhof

Writer

Vladimir Uralskiy

Petushkov

Boris Gusman

Writer

Boris Barnet

Sailor in tavern

Anatoli Golovnya

Director of Photography

Sergei Kozlovsky

Production Design

Viktor Simov

Production Design

Werner Schmidt-Boelcke

Composer

Details.

Release Date
February 14, 1929

Original Name
Живой труп

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 22m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2024-10-21

This Movie Is About.

silent film

Wiki.

The Living Corpse (German: Der lebende Leichnam, Russian: Живой труп, romanized: Zhivoy trup) is a 1929 German-Soviet silent drama film directed by Fyodor Otsep and starring Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini and Viola Garden. It is based on the 1911 posthumously debuted play The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy. It was made as a co-production between the Russian-based Mezhrabpomfilm and the Communist-backed German company Prometheus Film.