Woman of Tomorrow (1914)
Overview
A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a child. Though considered by some to be a proto-feminist yarn, the film dwells on the consequences that equal rights for women may generate rather than openly champion suffrage. Similar in to Ibsen's The Doll House in many ways, the film provides mannered, solemn melodrama, ably acted by Mosjoukine and Yureneva.
Cast
Vera Yureneva
Anna Betskaya, the doctor
Ivan Mosjoukine
Nikolay, Anna's husband
Alexander Wyrubow
Vitold Polonsky
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