The Living Corpse (1969)
Original title: Живой труп
The Living Corpse is a 1969 Russian-language drama movie directed by Vladimir Vengerov, with a running time of 2h 14m. It stars Aleksey Batalov, Alla Demidova and Oleg Basilashvili.
According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way, to stage suicide.
Cast
- Aleksey Batalov as Fyodor Protasov (Fedya)
- Alla Demidova as Liza
- Oleg Basilashvili as Viktor Karenin
- Lidiya Shtykan as Anna Pavlovna
- Elena Chyornaya as Sasha
- Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Anna Dmitrievna Karenina
- Evgeniy Kuznetsov as Prince Abrezkov
- Svetlana Toma as Masha the gypsy
- Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Afremov
- Pantelejmon Krymov as officer
- Aleksey Kozhevnikov as musician
- Oleg Borisov as court investigator