The Lie Filming Locations

The scenes of this aptly named silent drama are laid during the time of the Franco-Prussian War. Two soldiers of the German army fall in love with a peasant girl whose heart does not decide which is to be the favorite one until the call to arms is heard when, by the old mill stream, love's old sweet story is told once again. She consecrates her life to one, while the other does not learn the truth until the time comes to say farewell, when he discovers, to his chagrin, that his comrade has won her heart. Little time is left for explanations; the bugle sounds, the comrades march to the front. While escaping from the French her lover is shot and grievously wounded. Dictating a message to his sweetheart telling of his love and claiming her for his bride on his recovery, he entrusts its delivery to his comrade. The comrade, although torn with conflicting emotions, is loyal to his brother-in-arms up to the moment he approaches the cottage, but there he falters in his duty and, tearing up the letter before entering, he informs her that her lover is dead. "The Lie" strikes deeper than he thought. It unseats the girl's reason and she wanders out into the woods with the vision of her lost one, as she believes, ever before her beckoning her on. To the edge of the dreaded black pool she wanders, where, ninety feet below, she sees her soldier lover calling to her to come. A moment she stands upon the brink of that awful abyss and then leaps down the dizzy height into the black waters below. Meanwhile her brother, having found the torn letter, puts the pieces together and learning the truth starts in pursuit of his sister to acquaint her with the deception. He arrives just a moment too late, for he sees her leap from the high rocks of the black cliff into the water. Without a moment's hesitation he leaps after her to the rescue. The heroic rescue and the ultimate reunion of the lovers are something it were better to see than attempt to describe.