The Living Corpse
Zhivoy trup
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha. Meanwhile, his wife, presuming him dead, has married the other man.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Aleksey Batalov
Fyodor Protasov (Feda)
Alla Demidova
Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza)
Oleg Basilashvili
Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin
Lidiya Shtykan
Anna Pavlovna, mama Liza and Sasha
Sofiya Pilyavskaya
Anna Dmitrievna Karenina
Evgeniy Kuznetsov
knyaz Sergey Abrezkov
Svetlana Toma
tsiganka Masha
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Afremov
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Panteleymon Krymov
Ofitser
Aleksey Kozhevnikov
Muzikant
Isaac Schwarts
Composer
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Genrikh Marandzhyan
Cinematographer