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Mockery

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1927 film by Benjamin Christensen

Film · TMDB

6.9

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.

Released: 1927-08-1378 minDir: Benjamin ChristensenDrama

Cast

  • Lon Chaney as Sergei
  • Barbara Bedford as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
  • Ricardo Cortez as Dimitri
  • Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Gaidaroff
  • Mack Swain as Vladimir Gaidaroff
  • Károly Huszár as Ivan

Themes

  • loyalty
  • peasant
  • hunger
  • promise
  • uprising
  • countess
  • class differences
  • silent film
  • revolt
  • whipping

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Ratings

IMDb

6.8/10

607 votes

Year
1927
Runtime
75 min
Genres
Drama, Romance

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
United States
Cast member
Ricardo Cortez
Producer
Erich Pommer
Cinematographer
Merritt B. Gerstad
Duration
75
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publication date
1927-01-01
title
Mockery
distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
film editor
John English
Commons category
Mockery (1927 film)
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