

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.
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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)
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