Lifting Shadows
Director
Léonce Perret
Screenplay
Henri Ardel, Léonce Perret
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.
Release
Apr 4, 1920
Budget
—
Country
United States of America
Revenue
—
Cast
Emmy Wehlen
Vania
Stuart Holmes
Clifford Howard
Wyndham Standing
Hugh Mason
Julia Swayne Gordon
Countess Vera Lobanoff
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