Summary
A sprawling, multi-generational odyssey that juxtaposes the feudal rigidity of Transcaspian aristocracy against the burgeoning industrial conscience of early 20th-century America, 'Wrath' charts the fractured lineage of Feodor, the Grand Duke's son, and Evelyn Burnham. Their clandestine union, born from a desert rescue in the arid wastes of Kara-Koom, is swiftly shattered by the machinations of the state and the vengeful shadows of a spurned countess. The narrative bifurcates through time and geography: Feodor is entombed in a Russian carceral system while Evelyn is exiled to a burgeoning New York, bearing a child in isolation. Sixteen years later, the Great War serves as a crucible for their reunion. The film transmutes from a romantic melodrama into a geopolitical thriller as their daughter, Eve Leslie—now a pacifist industrialist—wrestles with the blood-soaked provenance of her munitions fortune. The climax converges in the Transcaspian dunes, where armored warfare and familial revelations collide, forcing a final reckoning between the titular 'Wrath' of empire and the redemptive power of kinship.
Synopsis
The Grand Duke is governor of Transcaspia, a Russian province, bordering the desert of Kara-Koom. His son Feodor, spurning Count Nikolai's daughter, Olga, loves Evelyn Burnham, an American girl whom he rescues from Abdallah, a Turk, who has kidnapped her. Evelyn and Feodor are married, and trying to escape, are captured. Feodor is sent to prison for trying to desert his post and Evelyn is sent to New York, where a child is born to her. Sixteen years later the great war is on. Feodor believes his wife is dead. He is sent to New York to buy ammunition and there meets Eve Leslie and Adam Moore. Eve has just learned that all her fortune comes from the manufacture of munitions. She does not believe in war and shuts down her enormous plant, depriving the Russians of one of their chief sources of supply. Feodor returns to Russia. While he was in the United States his wife, who had been told he was dead, had seen him with Olga and believed he had married Olga. Eve hears of Evelyn and of the child. She and Adam have heard from Feodor his story. All messages to Feodor are intercepted and Eve and Adam, with Evelyn, go to find him in Transcaspia. There exciting events occur. Feodor is about to wed Olga. Eve learns that Evelyn is her own mother. The Turks attack the Russians. Eve is near death, but Adam and Feodor, coming to the rescue in an armored motor with machine guns, save the day, and in the end love triumphs over wrath.
