Mockery
During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.
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"Not to go into Tim Robbins mode from The Player, but think of this film as Downstairs (1932) meets He Who Gets Slapped (1924) meets The Last Command (1928). It blends class differences, the pain of humiliation, and the Russian Revolution into a bit of a mess, but it's a mess with Lon Chaney, who I always find mesmerizing. Here he plays a Russian peasant, and opposite him is beautiful Barbara Bedford, who more than keeps up with him as an aristocrat. During the civil war he protects her out in the country (how she ever managed to get in this position isn't explained), taking a whippin..."
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This film was preserved by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York after having initially been thought as lost until a copy was discovered in the 1970s. It was subsequently fully restored by The Film Foundation, established by director Martin Scorsese and others in 1990.
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During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.