 Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct these films, which together tell the story of a German architect, the Indian maharaja for whom he is supposed to build schools and hospitals, and the Eurasian dancer who comes between them.Lang's Indian epic is based on work he did forty years earlier on a silent version of "Das Indische Grabmal".He and Thea von Harbou co-wrote the screenplay, basing it on von Harbou's novel of the same name.