The Living Corpse (1929)
- Original title
- Живой труп
- Directed by
- Fedor Ozep
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Soviet Union, Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man fakes his own death to escape his unhappy marriage. His wife remarries, but his return to society causes turmoil for everyone involved.
melancholicrestraineddeliberateheavysomberslow-burnemotionally chargedatmospheric
What happens
The Living Corpse (German: Der lebende Leichnam, Russian: Живой труп, romanized: 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 Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse that posthumously debuted in 1911. It was made as a co-production between the Russian-based Mezhrabpomfilm and the Communist-backed German company Prometheus Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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