[4] De Vogt's career as an actor stretched into the 1960s, where he appeared in a number of the then-popular German crimi films.
This film was the first of a trilogy of the production company "Ustad-Film" starring actor Carl de Vogt, but it was only released as the third in the cinemas.
The film is about a cult of devil worshippers called the Jesidi whose village is destroyed by an army general named Machrej under a religious pretext.
When the village leader Kara ben Nemsi sees the devastation and learns that his people have been taken into captivity, he vows revenge.
The ben Nemsi character, and his faithful servant Hadschi Halef Omar, appeared later in several other Karl May novels, all set in the Near East.