Word: maslova
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...most extravagant producers interprets Tolstoyan Socialism. Instead of being, like the two previous versions, the old tale of young love reunited, We Live Again is comparatively faithful to its Russian original. In the earlier sequences where young Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented...
...Tolstoy, the tale of nice and unnice love, betrayal and soul-redemption is spun deftly and irresistibly to its logical close. Suave Rod La Roque is splendidly convincing as the idyllic, villainous and ultimately penitent Prince Dmitri. Dolores Del Rio is no whit less splendid as the luckless Katusha Maslova...
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