The Living Corpse
14/02/1929
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


Vladimir Tsoppi
Fyodor, friend of Protasov's


Mikhail Zharov
Hired witness (uncredited)
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