The Living Corpse

Name: The Living Corpse
Genre: Drama
Released: 1929-02-14
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini, Viola Garden, Julia Serda, Nato Vachnadze

February 14, 1929
Directed by
Fyodor Otsep

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.