The Nihilist (film)

The Nihilist
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.
Written by Frank Marion, Wallace McCutcheon
Starring Edward Dillon
Distributed by Biograph Company
Release date
  • March 28, 1905 (1905-03-28)
Running time
 11 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film with
English intertitles

The Nihilist is a 1905 American short silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.. It takes place in the Russian Empire and relates the story of a woman who joins the Nihilist movement and commits a suicide attack against the Governor's palace to avenge her husband who died because of police repression.

Plot

After her husband has been arrested by the Tsarist police, a woman begs the governor for mercy, without success. He is condemned to be deported to Siberia and dies on the way. She decides to join a nihilist group and is ordered to bomb the governor's palace. She dies while completing her mission.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: "A cinema history". Retrieved 9 June 2014.


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