Mockery

Mockery

70 mins | Drama | Aug. 13, 1927

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.

Mockery

70 mins | Drama | Aug. 13, 1927

Mockery
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Mockery
Directors Benjamin Christensen
Writers Stig Esbern, Bradley King, Benjamin Christensen

Cast

Lon Chaney

as Sergei

Barbara Bedford

as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova

Ricardo Cortez

as Dimitri

Emily Fitzroy

as Mrs. Gaidaroff

Mack Swain

as Vladimir Gaidaroff

Károly Huszár

as Ivan

Kai Schmidt

as Butler

Johnny Mack Brown

as Russian Officer (uncredited)

Albert Conti

as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)

Jules Cowles

as Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)

Frank Leigh

as Outlaw Peasant in Cabin (uncredited)

Russ Powell

as Man Taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)

Bud Rae

as Russian Soldier (uncredited)

Michael Visaroff

as Cossack Whipping Sergei (uncredited)