The World and the Flesh

Year: 1932

Runtime: 74 mins

Language: English

Director: John Cromwell

Drama

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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