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The Living Corpse (1929)
82 min | Drama

The Living Corpse (1929)

82 min | Drama

Fjodor Protassow wants to divorce his wife, so that she can be happy with another man. But the church won't allow a divorce, so he fakes his own death, becoming a "living corpse".

Director

Fyodor Otsep

Writers

Lev Tolstoy (play) (as Leo Tolstoy) | Boris Gusman | Anatoli Marienhof | Fyodor Otsep

Composer

Werner Schmidt-Boelcke

Cinematographers

Anatoli Golovnya | Phil Jutzi

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Updated Feb 14, 1929

Release date

Jan 3, 1931 (United States)

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Vsevolod Pudovkin Fyodor Protasov (as V. Pudovkin) Fyodor Protasov (as V. Pudovkin) See fewer	Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
Maria Jacobini Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza) Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza) See fewer	La Boheme (1923)
Viola Garden Sasha (Liza's sister) Sasha (Liza's sister) See fewer	Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen (1927)
Julia Serda Anna Pavlovna Anna Pavlovna See fewer	Liebeswalzer (1930)
Nato Vachnadze Masha, a gypsy Masha, a gypsy See fewer	The Golden Valley (1937)
Gustav Diessl Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin See fewer	Pandora's Box (1929)
Vera Maretskaya Prostitute Prostitute See fewer	No Greater Love (1943)
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Vladimir Uralskiy Petushkov (as V. Uralsky) Petushkov (as V. Uralsky) See fewer	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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