Resurrection (1927 film)

Resurrection
Film poster
Directed by	Edwin Carewe
Written by	Edwin Carewe Finis Fox 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

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)

Music

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

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

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.

External links

• Resurrection at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie