Based on the Tolstoy novel Resurrection and starring Ukranian discovery Anna Sten, We Live Again allows Mamoulian to step a bit into his own culture with an opening montage in the vein of Dovzhenko’s Earth; an extended, sensual Russian Orthodox Easter Mass; and an unusually bleak, un-American happy ending. Even here however, the director waxes poetic on some of his favorite subject matter: a forbidden romance, complete character transformation and the hard, but necessary, corruption of an innocent. Love and lust briefly blossom between Fredric March’s Prince Dmitri and the beautiful servant Katusha, yet it is not only their class differences that divide but Dmitri’s dissolution and rejection of his revolutionary socialist values. Used and abused, Katusha must learn life’s lessons the hard way while Dmitri has the opportunity to choose a path to redemption. Dmitri’s radical decision is one cold war away from the Technicolored dance with capitalism in Silk Stockings thirteen years later.