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Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

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Top billed cast

Xenia DesniEva
Nigel BarrieArved Holl
Hanna RalphLiane
Fritz DeliusWilfred Durian
Avrom MorewskiEldor Vartalun
Gustav ObergCeel
Hermann Leffler
Philipp Manning
Jenny Jugo
Heinrich Gotho

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