Film

The Living Corpse

1952 · 2h 50m · Drama

The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.

Nikolai Simonov

Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov (Fedya)

Galina Iniutina

Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza)

Yelizaveta Time

Anna Pavlovna, Liza's Mother

Klavdiya Trofimova

Sasha, Liza's Sister

Anatoly Dubensky

Viktor Mikhailovich Karenin

Elizaveta Gikhareva

Anna Dmitriyevna Karenina, Viktor's Mother

Yakov Malyutin

Sergei Dmitriyevich Abrezkov, Knyaz

Olga Lebzak

Masha the Gypsy

Konstantin Adashevsky

Afremov

Aleksandr Chekayevsky

Ivan Petrovich Aleksandrov

Mikhail Yekaterininskiy

Petushkov the Artist

Aleksand Kireyev

Artemyev

Bruno Frejndlikh

Judicial Investigator

Gennadi Michurin

Petrushin the Lawyer

Sergei Sorokin

Head of the Gypsy Choir

• Vladimir VengerovDirector
• Yevgeni ShapiroDirector of Photography

Release date

June 16, 1952

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 50m

Genres

Drama

• 

  The Country Girl

  1954

• 

  The Wars of the Roses

  1965

• 

  Closer

  2004

• 

  Dancers in the Dark

  1932

• 

  Curse of the Golden Flower

  2006

• 

  Private Number

  1936

• 

  Chicago

  2002

• 

  White Gold

  1927

• 

  West Side Story

  1961

• 

  Rope

  1948

• Raven's Route

  1962

• 

  Kocúrkovo

  1971