The Nihilist (film)
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Born Lentini, Italy Era Pre-Socratic philosophy | Died Larissa, Greece Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent film withEnglish intertitles Director Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. Release date March 28, 1905 (1905-03-28) Areas of interest Ontology, Rhetoric, Moral relativism, Epistemology Influenced Plato, Antisthenes, Pericles Influenced by Empedocles, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea Similar movies Protagoras, Plato, Callicles, Prodicus, Parmenides | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nihilist is a 1905 American short silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.. It takes place in the Russian Empire and relates the story of a woman who joins the Nihilist movement and commits a suicide attack against the Governor's palace to avenge her husband who died because of police repression.
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After her husband has been arrested by the Tsarist police, a woman begs the governor for mercy, without success. He is condemned to be deported to Siberia and dies on the way. She decides to join a nihilist group and is ordered to bomb the governor's palace. She dies while completing her mission.
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