خلاصه داستان : وقتی دو کاپیتان سواره نظام روس به یک ایستگاه پست المان می ایند، یکی از ان ها اتفاقی که سال ها پیش رخ داده است را یاد اوری می کند. وی داستان را اینگونه اغاز می کند : ده سال پیش یکی از نیروها...

When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.

خلاصه داستان : فیلمی از گئورگ ویلهلم پایست و بر اساس یک داستان واقعی درباره یک زن بازیگر تئاتر کمدین در قرن هجدهم آلمان .برنده جایزه کارگردانی جشنواره ونیز

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.