The engineer Georg de la Croix ( Herr Alfred Abel ) suffers a nervous breakdown due to the continuous unfaithfulness of his lover, Dame Sappho ( Dame Pola Negri ). Georg ends up in a lunatic asylum. His brother, Richard ( Herr Johannes Riemann ) wants to avenge him but instead falls in love with the beautiful Dame Sappho. When Herr Richard finds out from a previous lover of Dame Sappho that she was the cause of his brother's insanity, Richard decides to put an end to his affair with her by marrying someone else but he still must see Dame Sappho, even minutes after the wedding.
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贫苦(🙆)(kǔ )的(de )小镇上(🕝)，传(chuán )教(jiāo )士(🙄)极力想解(jiě(🐘) )救(jiù )痛苦的(💙)灵魂(hún )，却受尽镇(🐜)民(mín )讪(shàn )笑(💯)怒骂。小(xiǎo )镇(⛷)(zhèn )青年在损(💚)友的怂(sǒng )恿下，逐渐步(bù )入犯(🛤)罪边缘，笃信(❔)上帝的女(nǚ(🥠) )友也随之陷(🚷)入(rù )绝望，传(🚴)教士(shì )及时(🎈)阻止年轻(qīng )人的犯行，并(bìng )缓(🔍)缓道出自己(😦)(jǐ )的荒唐过(🔏)去。 为了(👖)凸显(xiǎn )明星魅力(😢)，影(yǐng )片甚至(😼)以演员(yuán )研(🧀)读剧本、揣(😜)(chuāi )摩角色开(🔚)场，并(bìng )在(zà(😭)i )背景投射出(🎮)(chū )主(zhǔ )角在片中(〽)的(de )剧(jù )情转(🥪)折。因(yīn )为(wé(⭐)i )欧洲各地民(🏫)(mín )情(qíng )的差异，结(jié )局(jú )便拍(🌃)了三种版本(🙉)(běn )，三种结局(🕤)也(yě )反映出(🥟)丹麦、俄罗(🦏)斯、瑞典(diǎ(✡)n )完全不同的民(mín )族性。
年轻的(🐺)(de )法国姑娘马(📐)莉(lì )（艾德(🕖)娜·珀(pò )薇(📍)安丝 Edna Purviance 饰）同(tóng )名为约翰（卡(🐙)(kǎ )尔米勒 Carl Miller 饰(🥦)）的(de )小伙子(🏏)相爱了(le )，可是(🕒)这段感(gǎn )情(🈯)却遭到了他(🏷)(tā )们的家人的反对(duì )。于是，约(😁)翰(hàn )和(hé )马(🍜)莉相约私(sī(🥝) )奔(bēn )前往巴黎。然(rán )而就在约(🙋)定(dìng )的(de )那一(🏢)夜，约(yuē )翰的(🗳)父亲不幸身(🗑)亡(wáng )，约翰没(🌧)有能(néng )够赴(🌺)约。马莉(lì )以为约翰变了(le )心，在(🎚)悲伤和(hé )痛(⏲)苦之中独自(➡)(zì )一人前往(🚵)巴黎(lí )。
在荒凉而充(chōng )满野性(⬆)的美国(guó )西(🌋)部，荒原的(de )腹(👯)地坐落着一(🛷)(yī )个孤寂的(👘)小镇(zhèn )。牛仔(🗯) 洛克美(měi )伦悠哉游哉地生活(🤥)于此，他的(de )一(🏢)(yī )大乐趣就(🚤)是(shì )戏(xì )弄可怜的杰(jié )瑞(ruì(👚) )，先任其逃(tá(🥨)o )跑(pǎo )，然后从(😽)容(róng )地(dì )抛(🍙)出绳索套住(🖇)杰瑞。如是再(🧡)三(sān )，乐此不疲。这一天，引擎(qí(🐭)ng )的轰鸣声引(👁)起(qǐ )了 洛克(🥤)美伦的(de )注意(🎰)。一辆考(kǎo )究的老爷车带(dài )来(🧡)了美丽性感(👠)(gǎn )的游客—(📁)—图(tú )丝。见(🚰)到这个(gè )尤(😅)物， 洛克美(mě(⏪)i )伦不禁怦然心(xīn )动，体内荷尔(😮)(ěr )蒙呈几何(💮)数级增长。他(📍)转瞬之(zhī )间(jiān )传来了最威(wē(🌉)i )武(wǔ )的行头(💸)，牛(niú )了(le )牛气(➖)地走到(dào )图(🚴)(tú )丝面前，展(😨)(zhǎn )现(xiàn )他所(🤔)谓的雄风。在此之后， 洛(luò )克美(🌫)伦招来吉(jí(💓) )他唱起了快(🐪)乐(lè )的德州(🖱)情歌。
The Lotus Eater was a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced and directed by Marshall Neilan and released through Associated First National. The Lotus Eater starred John Barrymore with Colleen Moore as the female lead. The Lotus Eater is now considered lost.
Sylvester, by the hugely underrated Lupu Pick is one of the least known films of the silent era, and unjustly so. Pick, the director of the slightly less obscure Scherben (Shattered), is almost as forgotten as this, his masterpiece... a film that without doubt, in it's time, was one of the most important of the German silent era.
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.