After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.

• A. Khanzhonkov and Co.
• Vera Karalli
• Aleksandr Kheruvimov
• Vitold Polonsky
• Andrey Gromov
• Ivane Perestiani