Mockery (1927)
75 min
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.
- Release date
- August 13, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lon Chaney as Sergei
- Ricardo Cortez as Captain Dimitri
- Barbara Bedford as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
- Mack Swain as Vladimir Gaidaroff
- Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Gaidaroff
- Károly Huszár as Ivan - the Gatekeeper
- Kai Schmidt as Butler
- Johnny Mack Brown as Russian Officer
- Albert Conti as Military Commandant at Novokursk
- Jules Cowles as Peasant Who Robs Tatiana
Crew
- Benjamin Christensen · Director
- Benjamin Christensen · Writer
- Stig Esbern · Writer
- Joseph Farnham · Writer
- Bradley King · Writer
- Erich Pommer · Producer
- James Schafer · Composer
- Merritt B. Gerstad · Cinematographer
- John English · Editor