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Knight Without Armour
“The woman of flame -- the man of steel -- together !”
5.9 / 10• 1937• 1h 40m•NR• English
HistoryDramaAdventureRomance
Storyline
In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
Cast & Crew
Marlene Dietrich
Countess Alexandra Vladinoff
Lead
Robert Donat
Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
Irene Vanbrugh
Duchess of Zorin
Herbert Lomas
General Gregor Vladinoff
Austin Trevor
Col. Adraxine
Basil Gill
Axelstein
David Tree
Alexis Maronin
John Clements
Poushkoff
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jacques Feyder's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Knight Without Armour is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
