Top billed cast

1. 

   Emil Jannings

   Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander

2. 

   Evelyn Brent

   Natalie Dabrova

3. 

   William Powell

   Lev Andreyev

4. 

   Jack Raymond

   Assistant director

5. 

   Nicholas Soussanin

   The adjutant

6. 

   Michael Visaroff

   Serge (the valet)

7. 

   Fritz Feld

   A revolutionist

8. 

   Harry Cording

   Revolutionist (uncredited)

9. 

   Shep Houghton

   Russian Youth (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06

Emil Jannings is masterful in this depiction of an elderly gentleman selected by an Hollywood director (William Powell) to play the part of a Russian general in a film. When he arrives on set, his colleagues tease him about a medal he is wearing. He proceeds to tell them it was given to him by Czar Nicholas II himself, and after a bit of playful derision, they return the medal and the "General" finds himself looking into the mirror of his make-up box whence he drifts into a retrospective of his true self - the commanding General Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, cousin to the Czar and the man in c...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• romance
• hollywood
• black and white
• silent film
• russian revolution (1917)
• bolshevik
• train wreck