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Resurrection (1927 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Resurrection' was thought to be a lost[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneunitedartists.html 'Resurrection' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:'lost United Artists films - 1927'][http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8655/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'Resurrection'] A copy does survive at UCLA Film and Television Archive. 1927 Hollywood adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel 'Resurrection'. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature-length silent production starring Dolores del Ro 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 Vlez.
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 Ro 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," first published in 1946 in Germany under the title Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.
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