Das grinsende Gesicht

In the late 17th century in France, the young son of a widowed lord is kidnapped by gypsies, who carve a permanent grin on the child's face.

When the disfigured youth (Franz Hobling) grows up, he falls in love with a blind girl named Dea (Lucienne Delacroix), and joins a touring company as a performer.

[2] Das grinsende Gesicht was a production of the small Austrian film company Olympic-Film.

[5] Das grinsende Gesicht had a trade preview screening in Vienna on October 22, 1920 and a general release on March 18, 1921.

[5] It also had international distribution, being screened in Havana in October 1921 when it was imported by the Antillian Film Co.[citation needed] From retrospective reviews, the authors of Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s (2016) descried the film as "an earnest and faithful - though somewhat uninspired" adaptation.