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The Living Corpse (German: Der lebende Leichnam, Russian: Живой труп, translit. Zhivoy trup) is a 1929 German-Soviet silent drama film directed by Fyodor Otsep and starring Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini and Viola Garden. It is based on the play The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy. It was made as a co-production between the Russian-based Mezhrabpomfilm and the Communist-backed German company Prometheus Film.
Original Release
02/14/1929
US Release
01/03/1931
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Vsevolod Pudovkin | Fyodor Protasov |
| Maria Jacobini | Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza) |
| Viola Garden | Sasha (Liza's sister) |
| Julia Serda | Anna Pavlovna |
| Nato Vachnadze | Masha, a gypsy |
| Gustav Diessl | Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin |
| Vera Maretskaya | Prostitute |
| Daniil Vvedenskiy | Artem'ev (The Good Spirit) |
| Vladimir Uralskiy | Petushkov |
| Boris Barnet | Sailor in tavern |
Directors
Writers
Fyodor Otsep, Lev Tolstoy, Boris Gusman, Anatoli Marienhof
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Vsevolod Pudovkin | Fyodor Protasov |
| Maria Jacobini | Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza) |
| Viola Garden | Sasha (Liza's sister) |
| Julia Serda | Anna Pavlovna |
| Nato Vachnadze | Masha, a gypsy |
| Gustav Diessl | Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin |
| Vera Maretskaya | Prostitute |
| Daniil Vvedenskiy | Artem'ev (The Good Spirit) |
| Vladimir Uralskiy | Petushkov |
| Boris Barnet | Sailor in tavern |
| Carola Höhn | |
| Karl Junge-Swinburne | (as Karl Swinborne) |
| Porfiri Podobed | |
| Pyotr Repnin | |
| Sylvia Torf |
