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Zhivoj trup (Живой труп)
(The Living Corpse)
Also known as Das Ehegesetz and Der Lebende Leichnam in Germany : [Zakonnij brak], [A Living Corpse]
(1928) Soviet Union-Germany
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
Mezhrabpom-fil’m and Prometheus-Film-Verleih und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung production; distributed by Prometheus-Film-Verleih und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Germany) and [?] Mezhrabpom-fil’m? (USSR). 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 1.33:1 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. / Silent film.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Authors: Leo Tolstoy
Listing updated: 6 September 2014.
References: Bardèche-History p. 280 : Website-IMDb.
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