Resurrection (1927 film)

• (for a 1931 talkie starring Lupe Velez -- see Resurrection (1931 American film)
• (for an early Spanish language talkie film, with Velez, see -- Resurrection (Spanish-language version)
• (A 1934 film starring Anna Sten was called -- We Live Again)

Resurrection
Film poster
Directed by	Edwin Carewe
Produced by	Edwin Carewe Productions
Written by	Edwin Carewe Finis Fox Leon Tolstoi (Novel)
Starring	Dolores del Río Rod La Rocque Rita Carewe Marc McDermott
Cinematography	Robert Kurrle
Edited by	Jeanne Spencer
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	March 19, 1927 (1927-03-19)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Resurrection is a lost^[1][2] 1927 Hollywood adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature-length silent production starring Dolores del Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy who co-wrote the script. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film starred by Lupe Vélez.

Plot

Katyusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Dimitry. Dimitry finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katyusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

Cast

• Dolores del Río as Katyusha Maslova
• Rod La Rocque as Prince Dimitry Ivanich
• Lucy Beaumont as Aunt Sophya
• Vera Lewis as Aunt Marya
• Marc McDermott as Major Schoenboch
• Clarissa Selwynne as Princess Olga Ivanovitch Nekhludof
• Eve Southern as Princess Sonia Korchagin
• Ilya Tolstoy as The Old Philosopher
• Bobby White - (uncredited)

References

Cited with approval in Frankel, Viktor E., "Man's Search for Meaning," ca. 1945.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Resurrection (1927 film).

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• synopsis at AllMovie