During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Directed by Anthony Asquith
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Cast
Harry Baur
Peter Brioukow
Penelope Dudley-Ward
Natasha
Laurence Olivier
Captain Ivan Ignatoff
Athene Seyler
Madame Anna Sabine
Lilian Braithwaite
Countess
Morton Selten
General Kovrin
Sam Livesey
Fedor
Robert Cochran
Polonsky
Hay Petrie
Spy
Walter Hudd
The Doctor
Kate Cutler
Madame Kovrin
C.M. Hallard
President of Court Martial
Charles Carson
Officer of Defense
Edmund Willard
Officer of Prosecution
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