Franz Höbling

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... (imdb)

France in the late 1600s, the son of a widowed lord is kidnapped by gypsies, who carve a permanent grin on the child's face. When the deformed boy grows up, he falls in love with a blind girl named Dea, and joins a touring company as a performer. Calling himself Gwynplaine, he develops an act in which he reveals his hideous face to the crowds for money. A sexually perverse, seductive socialite named Josiane becomes attracted to him and seeks to possess him.