Drama · United States of America · 1932 · 1h 14m

The World and the Flesh

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Director
John Cromwell
Cast
George Bancroft as Kylenko Miriam Hopkins as Maria Yaskaya Alan Mowbray as Dimitri George E. Stone as Rutchkin Mitchell Lewis as Sukhanov Max Wagner as Vorobiov
Crew
Karl Struss — Director of Photography John Leipold — Original Music Composer Stephan Pasternacki — Original Music Composer Herman Hand — Original Music Composer Oliver H.P. Garrett — Writer
Synopsis

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.

Mood & Themes
russian revolution (1917)
Key Collaborators
John Cromwell Director Karl Struss Director of Photography John Leipold Original Music Composer Stephan Pasternacki Original Music Composer Herman Hand Original Music Composer Oliver H.P. Garrett Writer
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