Die vier Reiter der Apokalypse

An Argentinian cattle baron, Madariaga (Pomeroy Cannon), has two daughters: one married a Frenchman, the other a German. Madariaga favors his French grandson, Julio (Rudolph Valentino), as his heir, but Julio is a wastrel and rake whose greatest achivement is the Tango. When Madariaga dies, his fortune is split between the daughters. The German side of the family goes back to Berlin, while the French half moves to Paris, where Julio becomes a painter and falls in love with Marguerite (Alice Terry), a married woman. When WWI explodes (and is described by the mystic Tchernoff as the coming Apocalypse), and Marguerite's husband is blinded, Julio decides he must join the army, and becomes a reformed character. But Death hasn't finished gathering his harvest yet and Julio must face his own cousin on the battlefield. (Verleiher-Text)