Mockery

  • Drama
8/13/1927
70

Storyline

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.

Director:
Benjamin Christensen
Writer:
Bradley King
    • loyalty
    • peasant
    • hunger
    • promise
    • uprising
    • countess
    • class differences
    • silent film
    • revolt
    • whipping
    • siberia
    • social unrest

    Cast

    • 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)

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