“Dreyer's interest in characters in passive, suffering roles finds its most direct expression in this story of a great artist, modelled a little on Rodin, and his love for his model Mikaël, which can only find expression in the fantasy of desertion Zoret causes to be enacted around him, and which forms the subject of his last painting. The Danish director, Christensen, plays the artist Zoret. Karl Freund's photography is very beautiful. The film was a great success in Germany, being called the first kammerspiel film.”