Stronger Than Death (1920 film)

Stronger Than Death is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Blaché and produced by and starring Alla Nazimova.

[4] As described in a film magazine,[5] Major Tristam Boucicault (Bryant) endeavors to get his father Colonel Boucicault (French) to aid him in fighting the cholera in the distant city of Bjura, where he is the lone physician fighting the disease.

His attention is arrested by Sigrid Fersen (Nazimova), who is being entertained by the officers and their wives.

James sees the fight and under penalty of disclosing the facts forces Sigrid to marry him that night.

Major Boucicault takes the exhausted dancer to his hut where she recovers consciousness and determines to live for the love that is stronger than death.