Tempest (1928)
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
- Date of release
- 1928-05-27
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Sam Taylor
Casting
- John Barrymore — Sergeant Ivan Markov
- Camilla Horn — Princess Tamara
- Louis Wolheim — Sergeant Bulba
- Boris de Fast — The Peddler
- George Fawcett — The General
- Ullrich Haupt — The Captain
- Michael Visaroff — The Guard
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Production Design
Tempest is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Sam Taylor. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. V. I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko wrote the screenplay and William Cameron Menzies won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the film in 1929, the first year of the awards ceremony. John Barrymore and Camilla Horn star in the film, with Louis Wolheim co-starring.
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