The Living Corpse (1969)
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.
Director: Vladimir Vengerov
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Aleksey Batalov as Fyodor Protasov (Fedya) |
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Alla Demidova as Liza |
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Oleg Basilashvili as Viktor Karenin |
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Lidiya Shtykan as Anna Pavlovna |
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Elena Chyornaya as Sasha |
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Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Anna Dmitrievna Karenina |
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Evgeniy Kuznetsov as Prince Abrezkov |
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Svetlana Toma as Masha the gypsy |
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Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Afremov |
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Pantelejmon Krymov as officer |
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Aleksey Kozhevnikov as musician |
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Oleg Borisov as court investigator |
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Nikolai Boyarsky as Petushkov |
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Ivan Petrovich the genius |
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Aleksandra Kononova as Gypsy woman (uncredited) |
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Aleksey Savostyanov as Doctor |
| Directing | Vladimir Vengerov | Director |
| Writing | Vladimir Vengerov | Writer |
| Writing | Leo Tolstoy | Theatre Play |
| Art | Nikolai Suvorov | Production Design |
| Editing | Stera Gorakova | Editor |
| Art | Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolai Elenbogen | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Genrikh Marandzhyan | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Isaac Schwarts | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yevgeni Nesterov | Sound Director |
| Directing | V. Terentyev | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Liliya Moshkina | Costume Design |
| Writing | Kheyli Elken | Script Editor |
| Camera | S. Ivanov | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Bufetova | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Rimma Shtil | Set Decoration |
| Visual Effects | Yuriy Borovkov | VFX Artist |
| Directing | M. Davydova | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ya. Nakhamchuk | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yevgeni Tatarsky | Third Assistant Director |
| Camera | Anatoliy Kudryavtsev | Assistant Camera |
| Editing | Tamara Guseva | Assistant Editor |
| Art | Vladimir Kostin | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | M. Struchkova | Assistant Production Design |
| Production | Mikhail Gendenshteyn | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Pokrovskiy | Visual Effects Camera |