A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

The tumultuous life of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia.

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.