Cast overview: | |||
Esther Ralston | ... | Lena Smith | |
James Hall | ... | Franz Hofrat | |
Gustav von Seyffertitz | ... | Herr Hofrat | |
Emily Fitzroy | ... | Frau Hofrat | |
Fred Kohler | ... | Stefan | |
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Betty Aho | ... | Stefan's Sister |
Lawrence Grant | ... | Commissioner | |
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Leone Lane | ... | Pepi |
Kay Deslys | ... | Poldi | |
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Alex Woloshin | ... | Janitor |
Ann Brody | ... | Janitor's Wife | |
Wally Albright | ... | Franz (age 3) (as Wally Albright Jr.) | |
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Werner Klingler | ... | Franz (age 18) |
In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child. Written by genet-1