Her Moment

Her Moment

1918 · 70 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.

Directed by Frank Beal · Written by Samuel H. London

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Anna Luther Katinka Veche
William Garwood Jan Drakachu
Anne Schaefer Jan's Mother
Frank Brownlee Victor Dravich
Bert Hadley Boris
William Lowery Ulaf
Murdock MacQuarrie Mr. Johnson
Alida B. Jones Minka
John L. Franck Father Benoni
William Bytell Sherwin Matthews
Leon De La Mothe Sando Gryj
Eugene Owen Warren McLeod

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