The read
It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.
Ratings
TMDB9.5/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Cheslav SabinskyScreenplay
- Cheslav SabinskyDirector
Cast
- Vera KholodnayaMasha, gypsy woman
- Vladimir MaksimovFedor Protasov
- Ossip RunitschViktor Mikhaylovich Karenin
- Olga RakhmanovaViktor's mother
- Klavdiya AlekseyevaLiza
- Ivan KhudoleyevMikhail Andeyevich Afremov
- Arseniy BibikovSergey Dmitrievich Abrezkov
- Natalya BelyovtsevaSasha, Liza's sister
- Mikhail MassinForensic investigator
- N. KozyrevOfficial
- P. KozyrevMasha's father
- Vasili StepanovPetushkov
Stills
Themes
based on play or musicalsilent filmlost film20th century