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Lifting Shadows
Lifting Shadows
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Lifting Shadows

1920
1h
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1920

Runtime

1h

Storyline

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of Death" because she carries certain papers given to her back home by her father. She marries a man who turns out to be a drug addict, and in a heated argument, she shoots him. A young lawyer defends her, then falls in love with her.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h
Apr 4, 1920
Languages
No Language
Director
Léonce Perret
Léonce Perret
Production
Léonce Perret
Léonce Perret
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

6 Cast Members

Emmy Wehlen

Emmy Wehlen

Vania

Stuart Holmes

Stuart Holmes

Clifford Howard

Wyndham Standing

Wyndham Standing

Hugh Mason

Julia Swayne Gordon

Julia Swayne Gordon

Countess Vera Lobanoff

Rafael Bongini

Serge Ostrowski

F. French

Gregory Lobanoff

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