| The Nihilist | |
| Director: | Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. |
| Distributor: | Biograph Company |
| Starring: | Edward Dillon |
| Runtime: | 11 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent film with English intertitles |
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.
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.[1]