Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Der Gelbe Schein was shot at the end of WW I in a partly Jewish neighbourhood in Warsaw, the so called Nalevsky-Quarters. Poland still was occupied by German troops at that time. Parts of the movie were filmed at the Ufa-Union-Ateliers in Berlin Tempelhof though. Der Gelbe Schein was planned as propagandistic movie against the Russian Empire of the Czar. But it premiered not before the 22nd of November 1918 when the empire had collapsed already. Today Der Gelbe Schein is an early example of a movie featuring a studied woman as heroine while being in the same time the spectacular case of a German Propaganda-Film with a philosemitistic message.

1885年，为了组织歌剧音乐节，依拉明格小镇邀请了一位有名的歌手，玛格达莱娜·戴尔奥托女士。她不仅会为当地歌剧节献唱，还会在教堂表演巴赫的马太受难曲中的一部分。玛格达莱娜·戴尔奥托女士受到依拉明格委员会，包括王子本人的热烈欢迎。不久后玛格达莱娜和她同行的朋友罗尔莫泽，都表示自己是土生土长的德国人。事实上，真名为玛格达·施瓦兹的玛格达莱娜，不仅是依拉明格人，而且几年前愤怒地离家出走…… （豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）