The Living Corpse

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

Nikolai Simonov

as Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov (Fedya)

Galina Iniutina

as Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza)

Yelizaveta Time

as Anna Pavlovna, Liza's Mother

Klavdiya Trofimova

as Sasha, Liza's Sister

Anatoly Dubensky

as Viktor Mikhailovich Karenin

Elizaveta Gikhareva

as Anna Dmitriyevna Karenina, Viktor's Mother

Yakov Malyutin

as Sergei Dmitriyevich Abrezkov, Knyaz

Olga Lebzak

as Masha the Gypsy

Konstantin Adashevsky

as Afremov

Aleksandr Chekayevsky

as Ivan Petrovich Aleksandrov

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