Siberia (1926 film)

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Directed by Victor Schertzinger
William Tummel(ass't director)
Written by Eve Unsell
Produced by William Fox
Starring Alma Rubens
Edmund Lowe
Tom Santschi
Cinematography Glen MacWilliams
Robert Martin
Production
company
Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 28, 1926 (1926-03-28)
Running time
7 reels, 6,950 feet
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Siberia is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, and Tom Santschi. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. [1] Made on a relatively high budget of around $250,000, it was considered a disappointment and barely made back its costs. [2]

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Plot

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Film stills from advertisement in the April 24, 1926 issue of Motion Picture News

The Imperial Russian Army officer Leonid Petroff and the pro-revolutionary schoolteacher Sonia Vronsky fall in love. She is exiled to Siberia with her brother Kyrill, but Petroff is posted there and they continue their romance. After the October Revolution Vronsky and Petroff escape the country while being pursued by the Bolshevik leader Egor Kaplan. [3]

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Siberia in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film. [5]

See also

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References

  1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Siberia
  2. Solomon p. 89
  3. "Siberia". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Siberia
  5. Siberia at Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: Lost Fox films - 1926