Resurrection (1927 film)
{{short description|1927 film by Edwin Carewe}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Resurrection
|image=File:Resurrection 1927.jpg
|caption=Film poster
| director = Edwin Carewe
| producer = Edwin Carewe Productions
| writer = Edwin Carewe
Finis Fox
| based_on = {{basedon|Resurrection|Leo Tolstoy}}
| starring = Dolores del Río
Rod La Rocque
Rita Carewe
Marc McDermott
| music =
| cinematography = Robert Kurrle
| editing = Jeanne Spencer
| distributor = United Artists
| released = {{Film date|1927|3|19}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent Version
Sound Version (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)
| budget =
}}
Resurrection is a 1927 American romantic drama film directed by Edwin Carewe, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection. The film is 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 produced with a newly filmed prologue in which the theme song "Russian Lullaby"{{cite web |title=Bayu Bayushki Bayu - Russian Lullaby |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8WYvAo-RA |website=YouTube |publisher=Экиэй. |access-date=4 April 2025}} 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, Carewe directed an all-talking remake of the 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.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8655/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Resurrection][http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneunitedartists.html Resurrection at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost United Artists films - 1927]
References
{{reflist}}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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- {{IMDb title|title=Resurrection|id=0018318}}
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Category:Films based on Resurrection
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films directed by Edwin Carewe
Category:1927 romantic drama films
Category:American romantic drama films
Category:Rediscovered American films
Category:1920s rediscovered films
Category:Silent American romantic drama films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
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