Cast :
Albert PREJEAN ... Orloff
Valéry INKIJINOFF ... Silatschoff
Raymond ROULEAU ... Schalin
Danielle DARRIEUX ... Macha
Nathalie KOVANKO ... Olga
Henri MARCHAND ... Ivan
Jacques BERLIOZ ... Le colonel
Marcelle WORMS ... His wife
Josef ZEZULKA ... Guardsman
Produced by : Charles PHILIPP Original Music by : Willy SCHMIDT-GENTNER Cinematography by : Václav VICH, Fritz ARNO WAGNER Production Design by : Andrej ANDREJEW, Stepán KOPECKÝ Sound Department : Gerhard GOLDBAUM
Release Date in Russia : 09/02/1934
Plot synopsis
Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officer, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits led by a Silatschoff, a peasant who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia. In a bloody skirmish, Orloff's batallion is defeated. The young offiicer can only watch as his comrades are taken out to the scaffold to be hung. When his turn comes, he is spared. He realises that Silatschoff is the stranger he saved out on the steppes…