 The imposing, crowd-filled, exterior sets of mediaeval Florentine architecture including the Medici Palace were designed by the architect Franz Jaffe (1855-1937), previously royal buildings advisor to the King of Prussia.Some of the more intimate interior scenes were filmed at the Weissensee Studios on 9 Franz Josef-Straße, Weissensee, Berlin, a glasshouse studio built in 1914 for the Continental-Kunstfilm production company.The cameramen Willy Hameister and Emil Schünemann had previously filmed Continental's "In Nacht und Eis", the first feature film about the sinking of the