A very rare Dreyer film made in Germany in 1921. Set in Russia during the 1905 revolution-and using as actors emigrés from the 1917 revolution, including members of Stanislavsky's troupe, as well as performers from Max Reinhardt's troupe and some Scandinavian actors-this elaborate melodrama links class, sexuality and anti-semitism in a daring way. The story is of a Jewish schoolgirl, Hannah, who encounters racial hatred in school and grows up to become involved in revolutionary activities with a handsome student with whom she is in love. Questions of Jewish identity vs. revolutionary identity are raised, and the assertion of desire crosses all these boundaries with dire results when Hannah chooses a bourgeois over a peasant boy and the latter initiates a pogrom. David Bordwell writes in The Films of Carl Dreyer, "The Stigmatized Ones was the first of Dreyer's films to attract attention in France, called by Riccioto Canudo 'one of those polyrhythmic frescos that the artisans of the screen must soon create.'"