Tempest (1928)

★ 6.2 1h 51m IMDb

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

Tempest

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Cast

John Barrymore
John Barrymore as Sergeant Ivan Markov Died 1942 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groun...
Camilla Horn
Camilla Horn as Princess Tamara Died 1996 · Frankfurt am Main, Germany The daughter of a railroad official, Camilla Horn was educated in Germany and Switzerland. She initially trained as a dressmaker and received her first job experience in a fashion salon in Erfurt. Thi...
Louis Wolheim
Louis Wolheim as Sergeant Bulba Died 1931 · New York City, New York, USA It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Lat...
Boris de Fast
Boris de Fast as The Peddler Died 1973 · Feodossia, Crimea, Ukraine Boris de Fast (July 6, 1890 - ?after 1966) was a Russian actor, screenwriter, film editor and make-up artist. Born in Feodosia, Crimea in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to France where he worked in...
George Fawcett
George Fawcett as The General Died 1939 · Alexandria, Virginia, USA George Fawcett was an American stage and screen actor as well as a three-time (in 1920 and 1921) film director. His screen acting career spanned the years 1915 to 1931..
Ullrich Haupt
Ullrich Haupt as The Captain Died 1931 · Falkenburg, Germany [now Złocieniec, Poland] Ullrich Haupt was born on August 8, 1887 in Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Iron Mask (1929), Skinner's Bubble (1917) and Skinner's Dress Suit (1917). He was married to...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 7/10 Feb 10, 2024
John Barrymore is the aspiring sergeant "Markov" who is studying hard for a commission in the Russian Imperial army. It's ten years since any NCO has been promoted, but he has the support of the old General (George Fawcett) and though sceptical initially, the board agrees his promotion to lieutenant. It's at this interview that he first meets the old man's daughter, the "Princess Tamara" (Camille Horn) who is disdainful of his lowly, peasant, birth - but of course the more they meet the more they begin to fall in love. She can't acknowledge him publicly, and when they are caught in a room together, she acclaims that he is an interloper. He is broken through the ranks and imprisoned - destined for the battle-torn front. This is all happening against a backdrop of increasing Bolshevism and he encounters the pedlar (Boris de Fast) who convinces him that he has a place in the new Russia. When that comes, it is the old general who is humiliated and degraded and it is she who needs help from him to rescue the old man from the excesses of the pedlar who is now the vengeful Robespierre-esque commissar. "Markov" must now make some tough choices - his passion for his new-found freedom or his love for this disenfranchised woman. Though it's a bit of a slow burn at times, there's a chemistry between Barrymore and Horn - she portrays the privileged creature well - especially when her privileges are brutally withdrawn. Louis Wolheim also turns in a solid effort as the loyal friend "Bulba" and Fawcett likewise as the decent old general. The photography captures the intimacy of the story well and the direction and writing pull together effectively to demonstrate the end of an era, the brutality of change and - well, just a bit of romance too.

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