Directed by:
Fyodor OtsepComposer:
Werner Schmidt-BoelckePlots(1)
A man, his wife, her lover – divorce is out of the question. There is only one way out: the agony of a feigned death. Fyodor Otsep's film version of Leo Tolstoy's play is a classic example of the "East-meets-West" perspective adopted by the Mezhrabpom-Film studio and its German producer, Prometheus. This classical melodrama about a divorce that is prevented by both the church and the state is interwoven with avant-garde montages to create a social critique of pre-revolutionary Russia. (Berlinale)
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![Всеволод Пудовкин](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270071_68fb87.jpg)
Всеволод Пудовкин
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Mother (1926)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1945)
![Maria Jacobini](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278468_205cba.jpg)
Maria Jacobini
Italy
Best movies:
The Living Corpse (1929)
![Julia Serda](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/789/159789609_75f456.jpg)
Julia Serda
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Living Corpse (1929)
La habanera (1937)
Die große Liebe (1942)
![Gustav Diessl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/307/158307397_e754a8.jpg)
Gustav Diessl
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Devious Path (1928)
The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
![Vladimir Uralskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/214/159214015_f27ed7.jpg)
Vladimir Uralskiy
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Mother (1926)
Strike (1925)
![Борис Барнет](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/932/157932500_e29b3e.jpg)
Борис Барнет
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Storm Over Asia (1928)
The House on Trubnaya (1928)
The Living Corpse (1929)
![Porfiriy Podobed](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/225/159225042_48749f.jpg)
Porfiriy Podobed
Best movies:
![Carola Höhn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/732/160732539_e9e939.jpg)
Carola Höhn
German Empire
Best movies:
Night Crossing (1981)
The Living Corpse (1929)
Alle lieben Willy Wuff (1995) (TV movie)
Sylvia Torf
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Street of Sorrow (1925)
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Viola Garden
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Living Corpse (1929)