Emmerich Schäffer

Death stalks a Rumanian patriot who killed a man during a 1907 uprising. After spending 10 years in prison for this crime, he finds his wife has remarried and his lands have been confiscated. He serves in World War I and returns to his beloved mountains to try to live peaceably, but official suspicion remains, and he is pursued by the police for crimes committed by others. (allmovie.com)

The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen. (imdb)