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The Living Corpse (1929) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1929 · 82 mins · Russian
- Directed by
- Fyodor Otsep
- Starring
- Mikhail Zharov, Maria Jacobini, Vera Maretskaya, Vladimir Uralskiy, Boris Barnet, Gustav Diessl
Fedor Protasov, the play’s central figure, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza never truly chose between him and the conventional suitor Victor Karenin. Desperate, he ponders suicide but cannot act. Escaping his life, he joins a group of Gypsies and begins an affair with the Gypsy singer Masha.
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