The Living Corpse

IMDb link: 0019609
IMDb rating: 7.1 (173 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Fyodor Otsep
Cast: Maria Jacobini, Viola Garden, Julia Serda and others

Release date: 3 Jan 1931
Release year: 1929
Runtime: 82 minutes
Country: Germany, Soviet Union
Keywords: husband wife relationship, happiness, suicide, shot to death, marriage, love triangle, bigamy, faked death, based on play

Plot:

Fjodor Protassow wants to divorce his wife, so that she can be happy with another man. But the church won't allow a divorce, so he fakes his own death, becoming a "living corpse".

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