Max Laurence

In this silent film, an Egyptian priest terrorizes the Englishman who eloped with his priestess. (TCM.com)

This film tells the story of Wendhorst, a man who is constantly striving to do his duty for his country. He protects Germany's secrets but when his wife lets them slip, he abandons her and decides to continue to protect his country but this time on the battlefield. He is depicted as a hero battling enemy troops, but also demonstrates kindness and benevolence when he listens to the story of two prisoners.

Jean Coletti, a popular police detective, criticized for not using the press to help catch criminals, wages 100.000 marks that he can lose himself in Berlin for forty-eight hours without being caught.

James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window in the fourth floor and is dead. But it soon transpires that this was no accident, but murder. A case for the famous detective Max Landa, who begins to investigate the case. He sends his assistant Barnes into the company and soon the number of suspects multiplies.