Forræderen

The characters in this picture seem to be Austrian or Servian on the one hand and Turkish on the other. The story is a melodrama, brilliantly acted and laid out with skill; it is also effectively photographed. It's a love story. The traitor, an officer of high rank, sells his country's secrets for money and, as usual, contrives to have the hero condemned to death as the culprit. But the real traitor is noticed slipping away in the darkness and followed. He is caught in the act and after a very brisk engagement with fists and swords he and some of the enemy are captured. The hero is saved as the firing squad is taking aim. The picture has a true military atmosphere; pictures of military life in foreign lands, where nearly every able-bodied man has to serve his term, usually have. It is brisk and exciting. It is among the three best independent pictures of the week. - The Moving Picture World, September 2, 1911