The same company had filmed the same plot the previous year, but no footage from that earlier version survives.
The film is based on the late Romantic supernatural melodrama by German playwright Ernst Raupach, a very popular work that was first performed to great acclaim in 1830 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Marie's father, who is a widower, is malicious and avaricious, and he tricks the young lovers in a despicable way.
The imminent demise of the miller and his innocent daughter is foreshadowed by the appearance of the bird of death and the graveyard ghost.
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