Threads of Destiny (1914)
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Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
- Release date
- October 21, 1914
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Evelyn Nesbit as Miriam Gruenstein
- Bernard Siegel as Isaac Gruenstein
- Jack Clifford as Fedor Tomspky
- Margaret Risser as Rachel Shapiro
- William W. Cohill as Alexis Movak
- Joseph W. Smiley as Ivan Russak
- Russell Thaw as Russell - Fedor's son
- Joseph Standish as Abraham Solman
- Marguerite Marsh as The Nun
Crew
- Joseph W. Smiley · Director
- William H. Clifford · Writer
- Siegmund Lubin · Producer