"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.
Vera Kholodnaya
Masha, gypsy woman
Vladimir Maksimov
Fedor Protasov
Ossip Runitsch
Viktor Mikhaylovich Karenin
Olga Rakhmanova
Viktor's mother
Клавдия Алексеева
Liza
Ivan Khudoleyev
Mikhail Andeyevich Afremov
Arseniy Bibikov
Sergey Dmitrievich Abrezkov
Natalya Belyovtseva
Sasha, Liza's sister
Mikhail Massin
Forensic investigator
"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.
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