''Resurrection'' is a 1927 American romantic drama film directed by

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, based on

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''. 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.

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 *

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as Aunt Marya * Marc McDermott as Major Schoenboch *

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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

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.''Resurrection'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:''lost United Artists films - 1927''
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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

* 1927 films 1927 lost films Films based on Resurrection American black-and-white films American silent feature films Films directed by Edwin Carewe 1927 romantic drama films American romantic drama films Films set in Russia Rediscovered American films 1920s rediscovered films 1920s American films Silent American romantic drama films English-language romantic drama films 1920s English-language films {{silent-romantic-drama-film-stub