The Terrors of Russia Filming Locations

The picture opens with a scene in the home of a Russian Jewish family, which develops that the student son is in love with a Gentile girl. In the course of events he finds that his religion stands in the way of his love and he becomes a convert to Christianity He is cast out by his own people and at the same time the Christians do not accept him whole-heartedly. His treatment at the hands of his people causes him to swear vengeance on them, and he becomes a priest later in life. The story now carries over to a tavern, where a company of thieves is planning the robbery of a farmer, who drives by in his wagon. When they commit the deed, a small boy happens to be in the neighborhood and witnesses it. Frightened, he runs to the very tavern where the crime was planned and tells Vera, who is one of the ringleaders, what he saw. This makes the boy the object of fear on the part of the band and he is locked in a room, from which he never emerges. We now see a session of the "Black 107," the most feared and powerful of Russian anti-Semitic societies. The alarm has been sounded and they have seized upon the murder of the boy as a means for causing further persecution of the Jews. They order the chief of police to find the Jew who committed the crime and when he reports on an investigation of the murder that there are no such indications he is removed from office and cast into prison. His successor is a tool of the "Black 107." however and this leads to the arrest of Mendel Beliss. All through the story thus far is shown that the converted Jew who has become a priest is the chief council and right arm of the "Black 107." He has taken a terrible means for wreaking his vengeance on the Jews and it is because of the fact that he was himself a Jew earlier in life that the "Black 107" makes great capital of his testimony. When the trail comes on, it is his testimony which is the most damaging and we show how, while the trial is in progress, the Jews throughout the civilized world wait breathlessly for the verdict. When at last it comes and Beliss is acquitted there is great rejoicing and when the picture finishes, the innocent victim with his little family gathered about him, is turning his face toward the golden land of opportunity.