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Waiter No. 5
UNITED STATES · 1910

Waiter No. 5

D.W. Griffith
political exile class conflict family honor sacrifice for love social deception
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Synopsis

After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the officer resigns his commission and escapes with her to America. Several years later, the ex-officer is gainfully employed as a waiter in a Russian restaurant. For the sake of his grown son, who is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite, our hero pretends

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