In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

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Cast

John Barrymore

Sergeant Ivan Markov

Camilla Horn

Princess Tamara

Louis Wolheim

Sergeant Bulba

Boris de Fast

The Peddler

George Fawcett

The General

Ullrich Haupt

The Captain

Michael Visaroff

The Guard