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There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Keywords
loyalty
peasant
hunger
promise
uprising
countess
class differences
silent film
revolt
whipping
siberia
social unrest
Casts
Lon Chaney
Sergei
Barbara Bedford
Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Ricardo Cortez
Dimitri
Emily Fitzroy
Mrs. Gaidaroff
Mack Swain
Vladimir Gaidaroff
Károly Huszár
Ivan
Kai Schmidt
Butler
Johnny Mack Brown
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Albert Conti
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Jules Cowles
Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)
Frank Leigh
Outlaw Peasant in Cabin (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Man Taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)
Bud Rae
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff
Cossack Whipping Sergei (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
Sam Savitsky
Crews
Benjamin Christensen
Director
Erich Pommer
Producer
Merritt B. Gerstad
Director of Photography
John English
Editor
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Alexander Toluboff
Art Direction
Gilbert Clark
Costume Design
Bradley King
Writer
Stig Esbern
Story
Benjamin Christensen
Story
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