There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Sergei
Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Dimitri
Mrs. Gaidaroff
Vladimir Gaidaroff
Ivan
Butler
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)
Outlaw Peasant in Cabin (uncredited)
Man Taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Cossack Whipping Sergei (uncredited)