The Living Corpse (1918)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The living corpse |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
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| Director | Richard Oswald |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Richard Oswald |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
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The Living Corpse is a German film drama from 1918 by Richard Oswald , loosely based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy . Bernd Aldor was hired for the main role of Fyodor Protasov .
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In old, tsarist Russia. Fyodor Protassov's marriage to his wife Lisa is over. The Russian Orthodox Church does not allow divorce, however, and so Protasov fakes his own suicide to enable Lisa to start over with her lover Viktor Karenin. Fyodor himself becomes a “living corpse”. He cannot go back to his old life because he is “dead”, but neither can he begin a new, official one in legality. And so he evades into a life of illegality and underground.
But this brings him no real happiness, even though he finds a new lover. Its illegal existence is exposed, and Lisa is now guilty of bigamy through a new marriage . She is being dragged to court because of this, although Fyodor is actually responsible for this development. Protasov therefore renders the ultimate love service to his ex-wife: He now completes the pretended deed and this time really kills himself by shooting himself.
Production notes
The living corpse was made at the beginning of 1918, passed film censorship in March of the same year and was premiered in April 1918 as a five-act act.
August Rinaldi designed the film structures.
Web links
- The Living Corpse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The living corpse at filmportal.de