The Living Corpse
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1929-02-14
Runtime: 82 mins
Director: Fyodor Otsep
Writer: Anatoli Marienhof, Boris Gusman
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Drama
Original title: The Living Corpse
Production Companies: Mezhrabpomfilm, Prometheus-Film-Verleih
Production Countries: Germany, Soviet Union
Cast
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Maria Jacobini
Viola Garden
Julia Serda
Nato Vachnadze
Gustav Diessl
Vladimir Uralskiy
Vera Maretskaya
Daniil Vvedenskiy
Porfiri Podobed
Pyotr Repnin
Boris Barnet
Vladimir Tsoppi
Mikhail Zharov
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