The Living Corpse

The story

The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.

Cast & crew

Nikolai SimonovFyodor Vasilievich Protasov (Fedya)

Galina IniutinaYelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza)

Yelizaveta Time

Yelizaveta TimeAnna Pavlovna, Liza's Mother

Klavdiya TrofimovaSasha, Liza's Sister

Anatoly Dubensky

Anatoly DubenskyViktor Mikhailovich Karenin

Elizaveta Gikhareva

Elizaveta GikharevaAnna Dmitriyevna Karenina, Viktor's Mother

Yakov MalyutinSergei Dmitriyevich Abrezkov, Knyaz

Olga LebzakMasha the Gypsy

Konstantin AdashevskyAfremov

Aleksandr ChekayevskyIvan Petrovich Aleksandrov

Mikhail YekaterininskiyPetushkov the Artist

Aleksand Kireyev

Aleksand KireyevArtemyev