Resurrection (1927 film)

1927 film by Edwin Carewe

Resurrection

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Directed by| Edwin Carewe
Written by| Edwin Carewe
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Leon Tolstoi (1899 novel)
Produced by| Edwin Carewe Productions
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
Languages| Silent Version
Sound Version (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Resurrection is a 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 Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy who co-wrote the script. In 1928, due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. The sound version included a newly filmed prologue in which the theme song "Russian Lullaby" was performed and sung. While the actual film had no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film starred by Lupe Vélez.

## Plot

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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

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* 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)

## Music

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The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Russian Lullaby” by Irving Berlin. The soundtrack also featured the song “Brown Eyes” by P. Ouglitzky.

## Preservation

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With no prints of Resurrection located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[1][2]

## References

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1. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Resurrection
2. ^ Resurrection at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost United Artists films - 1927

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.

## External links

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

* Resurrection at IMDb
* Synopsis at AllMovie

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