Resurrection (1918 film)

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| name = Resurrection

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| director = Edward José

| producer = Adolph Zukor

| screenplay = Leo Tolstoy
Charles E. Whittaker

| based_on = {{based on|Resurrection (Voskraeseniye)|Leo Tolstoy, 1899}}

| starring = Pauline Frederick
Robert Elliott
John St. Polis
Jere Austin

| music =

| cinematography = Ned Van Buren

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| studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1918|5|19}}

| runtime = 50 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

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Resurrection is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edward José and written by Leo Tolstoy and Charles E. Whittaker, based on Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection. The film stars Pauline Frederick, Robert Elliott, John St. Polis, and Jere Austin. The film was released on May 19, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/500715/resurrection|title=Resurrection (1918) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=8 January 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=17359|title=Resurrection|publisher=AFI|accessdate=8 January 2015}} It is not known whether the film currently survives, so it may be a lost film.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8654/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Resurrection]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Resurrection |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=6 |issue=22 |page=26 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=May 25, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald06exhi}} Katusha (Frederick), a servant, betrayed by Prince Nekludov (Elliott), a Russian officer and member of nobility, is forced through the inexorable Russian custom to become a woman of the streets. As a social outcast she is accused of the murder of prominent merchant and sentenced to Siberia by a jury on which the army officer is a member. Overcome by remorse he seeks the Czar and obtains a pardon for Katusha. Upon his arrival in Siberia he gives her the pardon and offers, in atonement for the wrong he has done her, to make her his wife. In the meantime, however, she has been taught right living by Simonson (St. Polis), a peasant, and is determined to stay with him until his sentence is complete.