The Living Corpse (1929 film)
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| Directed by | Fyodor Otsep |
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| Music by | Werner Schmidt-Boelcke |
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| Distributed by | Prometheus-Film |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
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The Living Corpse (German: Der lebende Leichnam, Russian: Живой труп, romanized: Zhivoy trup) is a 1929 German-Soviet silent drama film directed by Fyodor Otsep and starring Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini and Viola Garden. It is based on Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse that posthumously debuted in 1911. It was made as a co-production between the Russian-based Mezhrabpomfilm and the Communist-backed German company Prometheus Film.