Siberia is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, and Tom Santschi. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.[1] Made on a relatively high budget of around $250,000, it was considered a disappointment and barely made back its costs.[2]

Siberia
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Directed byVictor Schertzinger
William Tummel(ass't director)
Written byEve Unsell
Produced byWilliam Fox
StarringAlma Rubens
Edmund Lowe
Tom Santschi
CinematographyGlen MacWilliams
Robert Martin
Production
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Fox Film Corporation
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 28, 1926 (1926-03-28)
Running time
7 reels, 6,950 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

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Film stills from advertisement in the April 24, 1926 issue of Motion Picture News

The Imperial Russian Army officer Leonid Petroff and the pro-revolutionary schoolteacher Sonia Vronsky fall in love. She is exiled to Siberia with her brother Kyrill, but Petroff is posted there and they continue their romance. After the October Revolution Vronsky and Petroff escape the country while being pursued by the Bolshevik leader Egor Kaplan.[3]

Cast

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Preservation

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With no prints of Siberia in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5]

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.

References

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  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Siberia
  2. ^ Solomon p. 89
  3. ^ "Siberia". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Siberia
  5. ^ Siberia at Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: Lost Fox films - 1926
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