Le sacrifice Filming Locations

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of the gates of a fine castle. The poor beggar girl, at the sight of her dead mother, calls for help, and her cries of despair are heard by the residents of the castle, who, being kind-hearted people, take the young girl away from the body of her dead mother, although the poor orphan fights desperately to remain besides what was once all the world to her. The next scene shows us the young beggar girl in fine clothes, for she has been adopted by her benefactors, and she seems to be very happy, particularly when a dashing young officer comes on the scene and shows her marked attention, a friend of the house happening to enter at that moment, they all rise to go out into the vast domains, and the next view we get shows us the four young people playing a game of tennis. Just as the game is finishing, however, the apparent friend of the family shows himself in another light, for he is seen handing his host's young wife a letter. She guiltily hides it in her dress, but her husband coming forward to see if they are enjoying themselves, startles her, and, as they all leave to return to the castle, she drops the compromising note on the lawn, her unsuspecting husband, as he strolls away, is attracted by this note, picks it up and then, mad with jealousy and suspicion, swears that he will make a clean breast of things, and resolves to go to the meeting place stated on the paper. The last scene shows the two lovers in the garden in a close embrace, when, hearing a noise, the young wife runs madly to the house in an endeavor to hide her identity, but she is not quick enough, and her husband has time to recognize the back of her cloak and hood. Mad with rage, he turns his fury on the man who has ruined his happiness, and, seeing him run away, he cocks his pistol and shoots him down dead. Whilst this is going on outside, another tragedy is being enacted indoors, the terrified wife coming upon her adopted child, tells her of her terrible situation, and the young girl, remembering all the happiness she owes this guilty woman in a moment of noble generosity, tears off the accusing cloak and hood from her friend, and has just time to slip them on when her lover and benefactor come on the scene. Her guilt is so apparent that her lover and her benefactor, stunned by such seeming ingratitude, chase the noble child away to her destruction, for she, unable to bear the grief of separation from all she loves, jumps down from a high cliff into the sea.