The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.

Captain Bryde, who is a guest of young Percy, Duke of Glauburne, rescues the artist Maud and her bear Jimmy, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Maud and her bear find shelter in the Duke's castle, but immediately arouse the jealousy of Percy's girlfriend Ethel