Thiscrimedramaiscomposedofthreeactsofapproximate10-minutedurationeach.Thestoryitself,showninalongflashbackstyle,leadsusintotheoverallreconstructionofthecrime,madebyamysteriouslymaskedcharacter.Thefilmwasreleased28August1916inFinland.Afragmentaryprintwasrecoveredin2001bytheCinémathèqueFrançaise;in2002thefragmentswerepreserved,withSwedishintertitlesandsupplementedwithproductionphotographs,bytheSvenskaFilminstituetin2002.WritingaboutVictorSjöströmandquotedbyCharlottedeSilvafortheEmbassyofSwedeninLondon,JonWengströmoftheSwedishFilmInstitutewrites,"ThepictorialcompositionsinHavsgamar/SeaVultures(1916)andthecomplexnarrativestructureintherecentlyrediscoveredDodskyssen/KissofDeath(1916)showadirectorinfullcommandofthemediumbbb
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