Threads of Destiny

Threads of Destiny (1914) is a drama film directed by Joseph W. Smiley.

Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.

Cast

Evelyn Nesbit

Miriam Gruenstein

Bernard Siegel

Isaac Gruenstein

Margaret Risser

Rachel Shapiro

Joseph W. Smiley

Ivan Russak

Marguerite Marsh

The Nun

Jack Clifford

Fedor Tomspky

William W. Cohill

Alexis Movak

Russell Thaw

Russell - Fedor's son

Joseph Standish

Abraham Solman