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" 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.
The film's premiere was held at the Mark Strand Theatre in Manhattan on May 15, 1927.
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 Resurrection is currently presumed lost. In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.
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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