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Darkest Russia (1917)

Darkest Russia poster
Directed by
Travers Vale
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film set in Russia. It follows characters dealing with oppression and personal struggles in a dark time. The story is based on a play.

melodramaticgloomyhistoricalstagedseriousslowoppressivearchaic

What happens

Darkest Russia is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Travers Vale and starring Alice Brady, John Bowers and J. Herbert Frank. In is based on the play Darkest Russia by H. Grattan Donnelly and Sidney R. Ellis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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