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The World and the Flesh (1932) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1932 · 74 mins · English
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- Directed by
- John Cromwell
- Starring
- George Bancroft, George E. Stone, Ferike Boros, Alan Mowbray, Miriam Hopkins, Reginald Barlow
Set amid the turmoil of the 1917 Russian Revolution, a group of aristocrats is seized by a ruthless Communist commander. He becomes fixated on a young ballerina among them and forces her to choose: surrender to his advances or watch her companions be executed by a firing squad, leaving her torn between survival and defiance.
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