Mockery (1927)

Directors

Benjamin Christensen

Cast

Lon Chaney, Barbara Bedford, Mack Swain, Emily Fitzroy, Ricardo Cortez, Charles Puffy, Kai Schmidt, Johnny Mack Brown, Buddy Rae, Jules Cowles

The story

thumb|left|220px|L-R: Director Benjamin Christensen, cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad and Lon Chaney on set thumb|thumbtime=18|Mockery (full film) The film is set during the civil war between White (aristocratic) and Red (Communist) Russians after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Sergei, a peasant in the Siberian countryside, is starving, and searching the dead bodies of victims of recent battle for something to eat (though when a dying man calls for water, he goes to give him some before realizing he has died).

Genres

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