Richard Eichberg was, frankly, one of the dumbest German directors in 1910s (even by usual German standards, lowest in Europe), and this film is an excellent example of it. Plot is illegible, montage is awful, setting is miserable. There are some exceptions (two great shots - with dark corridor with silhouettes and with dark mountain during the search operation, - and one good composition, with a curtain covering the scene of murder), but all the rest is much lower than you could imagine; these very exceptions, most probably, are because of constant Eichberg's showing off that is usually failed but these times, statistically, succeed. The most indicative characteristic is performance of great Werner Krauss that is as awful as all the rest in the film.
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