The twisted economics of war: with their sons, husbands and fathers killing or dying on the battlefields, women have to take over as factory workers producing equipment ensuring that their sons, husbands and fathers will continue killing and dying on the battlefields. Women are producing signal rockets, men in uniform appear and collect them, a (staged) sequence of soldiers fighting in the trenches perfects the intended representation of purpose and continuity.
Small parts from the beginning of the film have been lost. Though the remaining fragment lacks a main title it was identified with the help of censorship documents as a Sascha-Film production from 1917.
The copy presented is a 35mm safety print struck from an originally tinted nitrate positive print (hence the very low contrast during the titles which were typically tinted in a very deep red in Sascha productions). The original nitrate source no longer exists.

Anna Dobringer