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...LIVE AGAIN--Despite the fact that Tolstoy's Resurrection has been filmed twice before in the U. S., it took Producer Samuel Goldwyn to set his hand to producing a near-accurate interpretation of the social message contained in the book. He chose Anna Sten, Fredric March and Director Rouben Mamoulian to make this one of the best pictures of the season--and they fulfilled all expectations...
...best directed pictures of the season is featured this week at Loew's State. Entitled "We Live Again" the movie is an adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel "Resurrection." Casting the newly-found star Anna Sten, of "Naua" fame, in the role of the peasant girl and Frederic March, versatile and capable actor, as the master who first makes for her a disgraceful and wretched existence and then remorsefully and penitently returns to "live again," the director of the picture found two unusual and convincing players to portray the moving story...
...acting he turns in a splendid characterization that is moving and realistic. The director makes use of symbolism a great deal which at times is overdone but in some scenes is artistic and adds greatly to the interpretation of the story. The photography is excellent. The movie plot follows Tolstoy's story for the most part and gives a realistic picture of peasant life and modes of thinking in an age now rapidly becoming past history. The love theme is treated subtly and with a finesse too rare in most pictures today...
...Live Again (Samuel Goldwyn). When he was considering Tolstoy's Resurrection for blonde and beauteous Anna Sten's second U. S. appearance, Producer Samuel Goldwyn was reminded that it had been made before, with Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio. Said he: "It has not been made until I make it." His explanation: both earlier productions failed to stress sufficiently Resurrection's social message...
...meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented to make more impressive Dmitri's gestures of remorse. The climax, in which he gives away his lands and accompanies Katusha to prison in Siberia, possesses most of the impact Tolstoy purposely wrote into...