The Heart of a Gypsy - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Krisia Najoff, a little gypsy girl, is beaten by a drunken father. One day she looks longingly through a gate at the little orphan countess at play with her playmates. While the gypsies are in camp in the vicinity, her drunken father is ...See moreKrisia Najoff, a little gypsy girl, is beaten by a drunken father. One day she looks longingly through a gate at the little orphan countess at play with her playmates. While the gypsies are in camp in the vicinity, her drunken father is driven out of the camp by his disgusted brethren. A friendship springs up between Krisia and the little countess, with a result that Krisia is adopted into the family of her little friend. Fifteen year later, Countess Olga's cousin, a handsome young man, arrives. Both girls fall in love with him and he returns Olga's affection to the intense jealousy of the former gypsy. One day they go out riding and the young man falls from his horse, sustaining minor injuries. Krisia and Olga take turns nursing him, and one day Olga enters the room and finds Krisia kissing him. At that instant Krisia, realizing her great offense, begged forgiveness. In the days that followed, Krisia, through the medium of detective agencies, sought in vain to obtain news of her father's whereabouts. At last a letter came, saying that he was with a gypsy encampment a few miles from the villa. Krisia hastened to see him and made an engagement for him to come that night. It was the evening of the betrothal, when a dirty gypsy asked for her. He had not been in the room but a few moments when Krisia saw him steal some silver spoons, and, realizing the hopelessness of appealing to him, sent him away. After a night of despair, Krisia fled to the little stream just outside the villa's gate. From there she saw the wedding barque gaily draped with silks and flowers, and, flinging a "God bless you" after them, turned and ran toward the gypsy encampment, determined to resume the old life over again. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less