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Zhivoj trup
(The Living Corpse)
Also known as Das Ehegesetz and Der Lebende Leichnam in Germany : [Zakonnij brak], [A Living Corpse]
(1928) Soviet
B&W : [?] Nine? reels / 2612 metres
Directed by Fyodor Otsep (Feodor Ozep)

Cast: Vsevelod I. Pudovkin [Fyodor Protasov], Maria Jacobini [Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova], Viola Garden [Sasha, her sister], Julia Serda [Anna Pavlovna], Nato Vachnadze [Masha, a Gypsy], Gustav Diessl [Viktor Mikhailovich Karenin], Vera Maretskaya [the prostitute], Dmitri Vvedenskii [Artem’ev, the good spirit], Vladimir Uralskii [Petushkov], Boris Barnet [a sailor in the tavern], Carola Höhn, Karl Junge-Swinburne, Profiri Podobed, Pyotr Repnin, Sylvia Torf

[?] Prometheus Film, Laender Film and/or Mezhrabpomfilm? production. Scenario by Boris Gusman, Anatoli Marienhof and Fyodor Otsep, from a play by Leo Tolstoy. Art direction by Sergei Kozlovskii and Viktor Simov. Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya and Piel Jutzi. Music score by Werner Schmidt-Boelcke. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in Berlin, Germany. The film premiered in Berlin, Germany, on 14 February 1929. The film was released in in the USA by Amkino Corporation on 3 January 1931. [?] Website-IMDb credits Laender Film, Mezhrabpomfilm, and Prometheus Film as the film’s production companies. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Authors: Leo Tolstoy

Listing updated: 8 June 2009.

References: Bardèche-History p. 280 : Website-IMDb.