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Civilization's Child (1916)

NR | Apr 23, 1916 (US) | Drama | 00:50

After an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish section of Kiev, arriving just as Cossacks massacre most of the Jews in the city. Berna escapes to New York and works at a sweatshop controlled by Boss Jim McManus, but he seduces her, then throws her out on the street, and she becomes a prostitute. Berna later marries Nicolay Turgenev, a young musician,

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William H. Thompson
Boss Jim McManus
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Anna Lehr
Berna
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Jack Standing
Nicolay Turgenev
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Dorothy Dalton
Ellen McManus
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Clyde Benson
Jacob Weil

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