Sins of the Fathers (Die Sü;nden der Vä;ter/U.S.: The Devil'sAssistant). Nielsen felt that this was one of her best and most challengingroles. She portrays the daughter of a man who is rapidly drinking away thefamily's money. Taking a job as an artist's model, she falls in love with apainter who soon forgets her. When he needs a dissipated model he finds one inhis former lover, now an alcoholic herself. Urban Gad (Germany, 1913).Photographed by Guido Seeber. With Asta Nielsen, Emil Albes,Fritz Weidemann. (35mm)S.1. As the daughter of a general who is trying to acquire aninventor's plans for an air defense system, and the lover of a baron who wantsthe same plans, Asta must choose between love and country. Unlike her gypsy inGirl Without a Country, here she knows the many meanings of"fatherland."