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.

• loyalty
• peasant
• hunger
• promise
• uprising
• countess
• class differences
• silent film
• revolt
• whipping
• siberia
• social unrest