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The Case of Lena Smith

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Original title

Year

1929

Running time

80 min.

Country

United States

Director

Josef von Sternberg

Screenwriter

Jules Furthman. Story: Samuel Ornitz

Cast

Cinematography

Harold Rosson (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Drama | 19th Century. Silent Film

Synopsis

In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.

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The Case of Lena Smith

1929

Josef von Sternberg