Revolutionens datter is a love story by the Norwegian film pioneer Ottar Gladtvet. Gladtvet started his career as a projectionist and later became a cinema director, photographer, film director and founder of the production company Gladtvet Film A/S. Gladtvet made several commercials, documentaries, actualities/newsreels, and travelogues from Norway and exotic areas around the world. Revolutionens datter is his second fiction film and his only silent feature to survive.
Claire is the beautiful daughter of the director of the steelworks. Revolutionaries from the steelworks storm the director’s estate during a strike, and the director is killed. Steelworker Albert Fjeld remembers that Claire helped him earlier, and he helps her to escape from the mob. She dresses up as a revolutionary and after several fistfights, they manage to escape, steal a boat and flee the country. On the run they meet an associate of Claire’s father (Mr. Dalton, a landowner) and stay with him. Mr. Dalton plans for Claire to marry his son Jack, especially when it becomes clear that she is the heir to her father’s millions. She promises to marry Jack if he can beat Albert in a boxing match. At first, the two fighters are evenly matched, but in the fourth round, Jack goes down. Claire admits her love to Albert, and they get married.