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.
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)
