In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
Director of Photography: Otto Baecker, Heinrich Gärtner
Director: Richard Eichberg
Writer: Adolf Lantz
Story: Hans Kyser