The World and the Flesh (1932)
• April 22nd, 1932 • 1h 14min
Drama
Overview
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
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