![Feodor Chaliapin Jr.](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/fB2wL1MEqOmNrlJ7gDM9pgRvocq.jpg)
John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting