Mockery

The account is set during the Russian Civil War. There is famine in Siberia. Sergei is a peasant. He searches the dead for food. One day he meets a young woman. She is looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks him to take her there. She asks one more thing, that they tell anyone they meet they are husband and wife. The two of them set off. The woman is in fact Countess Tatiana. She is fleeing the Bolsheviks. She tells him who she is once they reach the house, and Sergei is given work there. What the people around him say begins to work on him, and he thinks about handing her over. Lon Chaney and Barbara Bedford appear in the seventy eight minute film, an American production Benjamin Christensen finished in 1927.