The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 137 1920s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
93 audience votes
Key crew
- Josef von SternbergDirector
- John F. GoodrichWriter
- Herman J. MankiewiczWriter
- Ernst LubitschWriter
Cast
- Emil JanningsGen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
- Evelyn BrentNatalie Dabrova
- William PowellLev Andreyev
- Jack RaymondAssistant director
- Nicholas SoussaninThe adjutant
- Michael VisaroffSerge (the valet)
- Fritz FeldA revolutionist
- Harry CordingRevolutionist (uncredited)
- Shep HoughtonRussian Youth (uncredited)
- Alexander IkonnikovDrillmaster (uncredited)
- Nicholas KoblianskyDrillmaster (uncredited)
- Guy OliverWardrobe Attendant (uncredited)
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Themes
romancehollywoodblack and whitesilent filmrussian revolution (1917)bolsheviktrain wreck