Die Augen des Ole Brandis

A four-reel Bioscope picture taken along some beautiful mountain lake, like Como, with tremendous backgrounds and lovely bits of landscape: ilex trees, garden walks, marble steps and the rough twists and bends of a hillside city's ways. Hans Ewer's novel furnished the scriptwright with his story which is half mystical and deals with an artist, Ole Brandeis, who gets the faculty of seeing people as they truly are. The spectator, after seeing one or two transformations, begins to speculate on how this or that other character in it is going to turn out. The gallery will hardly understand the meaning of it all, but it will be an entertaining exercise to instructed patrons. There is a ragged heroine who alone is good and true, and what she appears to be, and the rich artist finds this out. A good offering for the right place, but one that we fear that the general spectator will not be enthusiastic over. It is well acted and the backgrounds are artistically photographed. Its double exposures are poorly matched. - The Moving Picture World, August 8, 1914