Movie fragment (apparently no copy of the entire movie survives). A man and a woman who are engaged to be married split over a disagreement and after some time reencounter one another, thanks to a broken doll.
As has been pointed out, this film's plot relies on a huge coincidence. That notwithstanding, it's well done and well acted, and not unpleasant. The ending is missing, though it is already fully implied by the extant footage of the preceding sections. The plot description which we read on IMDB has an absurd detail: according to it, the two sweethearts meet again after three years, which is blatantly incorrect, since the child actress is the same before and after their reunion; furthermore, it doesn't take three years to settle an inheritance issue. The leading actor is very good. Incidentally, his real life daughter who appears in the surviving footage is certainly Helene; since her older sister Dolores is also said to be in the movie, one infers that she is in the lost ending section, which thus must take place three years later.
This movie may be watched free of charge on the web; the intertitles are in Dutch, but Google Translate does a good enough job of conveying their meaning:
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