"Bologna Cinema Archive presents" "This version was created out of two positive copies of the film on nitrate base, which were kept in the Brazilian Film Archive in San-Paulo" "(with titles on Portuguese), and in Belgian Film Archive, with titles on French and Flemish." "Text of intertitles was translated to Italian language." "(Inter-titles editing by vvvladimirov)." "Currently the film has length of 1300 meters." "The version according to censorship visa from 01.01.1920 had length of 2000 m." "STORY OF A WOMAN" ""Detain the old woman until my arrival."" "Name and surname:" "Unknown." "Diagnosis:" "Deep penetrating gunshot wound in third intercostal space." "Prognosis: ..." "Prognosis:" "The wound can be lethal." ""Stay here..." "If something happens, call me."" ""Let her have some rest!" "Interrogation is meaningless now and even dangerous!"" "No one will know my name, this will be the only secret" "I take to the grave." "I'm just - a woman." "Before I'll go and probaly find my death, I want to write enough for you to know the truth..." "I'll tell you my life as if you were my confessor..." "When I was 18, I still stayed in Ursuline school..." "I didn't know my mother well " "I met her only during her rare visits." "And I didn't know anything about my other relatives." "I hadn't seen her for five months already..." "And one day the director called me..." ""Listen, child..." "I haven't heard from your family for many months..." "I wrote them, but in vain." "I send a telegram to your mother four days ago, but there is still no answer." "What should I think?"" "We inform you that the telegram No. 2851, which was sent by you on 21 of September, wasn't delivered to addressee because of her death." "Head of the department." "After my mother's death I had to leave the boarding school." "I was so alone in this world..." "A month passed, and recommendations from my friends helped me to find a place as a lady's companion for quite a stern countess." "Her son was a young diplomat." "I believed his words, and loved him with all my soul, with all passion of the first love." "The spring was in full bloom..." "Several month of the most carefree happiness..." "And then I felt the first dreadful grief..." "The same night, I forgot about cautions and came to him, demanding explanations for his behavior." ""I court her only to please my mother   she wants this marriage, but I love only you"" ""You must leave this house immediately..."" "And, though i was completely exhausted, I left the same night I still had a secret hope that he looked for me I saw that he is incapable of performing even a magnanimous act!" ".." "In this moment of utmost suffering my dream castle collapsed..." "Where to go?" "What to do?" "Darkness of starless night reigned in my wounded soul..." ""She's with me!"" ""I saved you!"" "Some time later..." ""I'm a gentleman and I do not expect something in return from you..." "You can stay here as long as you like..."" "I stayed with people, with whom I brought together by fate." "They took care of me, and the fruit of my first mistake was passed to a wet-nurse in a village." "...Year late I still had an exciting life" "I still held money that I wanted to send to my little baby to the daughter of the man, who was sitting right in front of me." "...And desire for revenge started an all-devouring fire in my soul Heaviness of a momentary regret..." "My child became just an incentive for my revenge." "I was imprudent enough to turn for help to my accomplices..." "And only later I understood why they agreed so readily" "...I became his shadow in the city..." ""Do you know her?"" ""No!"" ""She is an adventuress..." "People says that she was a lady's companion for a noble, and then she was seduced and left by a young aristocrat..."" ""She even had a baby from him..."" ""Now I see, why she's following me..."" ""I ask you..." "Beg you..." "We need to talk..."" "Carnival" "...my revenge..." "Madam, if you come to Belmont street, № 57, second floor, at 5 o'clock, you'll see your husband in very interesting company"" ""No..." "I agreed to meet you only to talk about our daughter"" "And at five o'clock sharp..." "Madam, if you come to Belmont street, № 57, second floor..." "Without his family's support, he became an easy prey for these two swindlers..." ""I had my ear to the ground for two years already..." "His Excellency should return him to active service... give him a mission that make him tie a can on this..."" ""I'm lost!" "..." "Lost!" "..." "I'm ruined!"" "... Was it pity?" "Compassion?" "I don't know... t was a new feeling arising in the darkness of my soul..." "Feeling, that reminded me of my past love and my distant sweetheart daughter..." ""Come with me." "We will run away!" "We still can find happiness"" "The family tried to save him..." "So, he was called up to active service by the order from His Excellency Prime-Minister." "He was given a special mission." "...And when a small innocent creature cuddled up to my chest, the wave of pity and sadness flooded my heart I felt and understood all the horror of my life and grasped for my little daughter as for a life belt." "... I decided to make a clean break with the past and reunite with my dear baby." "My life will belong only to her!" ""Prepare her belongings..." "I'll take her tomorrow"" ""You will carry these maps of mine fields..." "I trust you this task, because I believe in your intellect and your honour!"" "...I suspect that you will become a victim for those people, with whom fate had brought me together...." "I told you everything..." "I love you, as I loved you back then, in your house." "Do you remember?" "Now I want to go very far away... with my baby..." "You should return to your home..." "Forget me and forgive all the harm I did to you as I forgive what you did to me" "Farewell!" ""What are you writing?"" ""It's..." "It's nothing of your concern!" ".."" ""You could be interested in reading this..."" "Fashion house "Spring"" "Silk hat with egret plume - 850 lire, fur coat with a muff - 18000 lire." "Totally: 18850 lire" "...I suspect that you will become a victim for those people, with whom fate had brought me together...." "I told you everything..." "I love you, as I loved you back then, in your house." "Do you remember?" "Now I want to go very far away..." ""Bastard!"" ""You can take it!" "I'll write more, as many as i want!"" ""Yes..." "Yes..." "Move far away from you!"" ""It's all in vain!" "Your precious baby was already taken fiom wet-nurse!"" ""You know what you should say..."" ""He always carries maps of mine fields." "If we could have a copy of them before the government start negotiations that would be a great success."" "This is a mission I trust to your honour..."" "And I could put him in such disgrace?" "I go crazy just thinking that he might..." ""So" " Do we have a deal?" "Will you follow our instruction?"" ""I do not trust you..." "I want to know where is my daughter before I'll do something!"" ""I'll tell you, because the child is well-hidden and you will not be able to do anything..." "She is the red house of aunt Vanna"" ""After two hours Franz will escort you"" "I decided - even if it will cost me my life!" ""It's a trap!" "..." "Run, save yourself, save the maps!"" ""I'm doomed!"" ""Don't worry about me..." "Think only about our little girl... the red house of aunt Vanna..." "At the end of the road..." "Go!" "..." "Run!" "..." ""You betrayed us!" "..." "But you forget about your daughter!"" ""The baby isn't where I told you, she is in ruins of Sarne..." "Now go and do as we agreed!"" ""And, firstly on a cart, then on a car, I brought her there..."" "'I know where the killer is..." "He can't escape..."" "The End"