The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

• 65%
• 1929
• Drama
• Romance
• Josef von Sternberg
• Esther Ralston
• James Hall
• Gustav von Seyffertitz

In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from his unsympathetic father, while the son returns to his profligate ways. Robbed of her child first when he is a baby, and later when they are separated by the war, she suffers imprisonment, contempt, and shame in order to protect the child.