We Live Again

Movie
Original title	We Live Again
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1934
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Rouben Mamoulian
script	Maxwell Anderson , Leonard Praskins , Preston Sturges
production	Samuel Goldwyn
music	Alfred Newman
camera	Gregg Toland
cut	Otho Lovering
occupation
	Anna Sten : Katusha Maslova; Fredric March : Dmitri Nekhlyudov; Jane Baxter : Missy Kortchagin; C. Aubrey Smith : Cortchagin; Sam Jaffe : Gregory Simonson; Ethel Griffies : Aunt Marie; Gwendolyn Logan : Aunt Sophia; Jessie Ralph : Matrona Pavlovna; Leonid Kinskey : Simon Kartinkin; Dale Fuller : Eugenia Botchkova; Morgan Wallace : Colonel; Crauford Kent : Schonbock;

We Live Again is a free film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1934 novel Resurrection . Directed by Rouben Mamoulian , the leading roles were played by Anna Sten (Katyusha Maslowa) and Fredric March (Dmitri Nekhludov).

action

The noble Dmitri Nekhludov seduces and impregnates the young Katyusha Maslowa, a servant of his aunt. Because of her pregnancy, Maslowa is fired, the baby dies after birth and is buried unbaptized. Katyusha Maslowa then moved to Moscow, where she descended into a life of poverty and prostitution.

Several years after spending the night with Maslowa, Nekhludov was appointed as a jury member to try a murder case. One of the accused is Katyusha Maslova. Although the jury found her innocent, the judge sentenced her to five years' exile in Siberia due to a procedural error.

Nekhludov feels responsible for Maslowa's fate and tries to free her. When he does not succeed in this, he asks Maslowa to marry him. But she turns down his offer.

Nekhludoff decides to give up his previous life and meets Maslowa on the way to exile on the border with Siberia. With Maslowa's help he would like to start a new life. Maslowa and Nekhludov cross the border together with a smile.

background

The main female role was played by Anna Sten, a Russian actress who was signed by Samuel Goldwyn and launched as the successor to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich . Since We Live Again disappointed artistically and financially, Goldwyn terminated the contract with Sten.

Production ran from June 12 to August 2, 1934. The premiere took place on November 1, 1934 in New York. The official release date was November 16, 1934.

Web links

We Live Again in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Review by Dennis Schwartz

Individual evidence

^ We Live Again. In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed November 4, 2018 .
↑ New York Times report on the premiere of We Live Again on November 2, 1934. Retrieved September 11, 2008

[1] We Live Again. In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed November 4, 2018 .

[2] New York Times report on the premiere of We Live Again on November 2, 1934. Retrieved September 11, 2008