Silent horror film directed by Julius Herska and starring Franz Höbling, Nora Gregor and Lucienne Delacroix. It is an adaptation of the 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo.

Anarchists encourage workers of a factory. The son of one of these anarchists began working as an engineer at the factory. The engineer organize workers and, when he becomes the director of the factory, prevent the social explosion...

The love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.