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The Whole World’s Valdemar

THEME. He made more than 83 films in just six years before he was found dead in his hotel room in Copenhagen at the age of 32. Valdemar Psilander became a world star in record time and died with…

Pat and Patachon - The Danish Duo that Conquered Germany

THEME. The comedy duo Pat and Patachon were the undisputed favourites of Danish moviegoers in the 1920s – and well into the sound film era, too. Hugely successful, they sold heaps of tickets in…

Pure magic or modern technology?

THEME on digitization. How is the analogue strip transformed into a digital stream? Join ’Mists of the past’ on its journey from analogue to digital. Follow A.W. Sandberg’s 1925-blockbuster…

Lau Lauritzen Sr. - The King of Comedy

THEME. He is the firebrand of farces, the prince of productivity, and the king of comedy. This is the story of the most hardworking humourist in Danish cinema.

Film pioneers – A startup fairytale

THEME. Take a trip with editor Lisbeth Richter Larsen and go back in time to when Nordisk Film was an anarchistic start-up, a playful exploratorium of cinematic art.

Benjamin Christensen, the genius behind Häxan

THEME. Visual tricks, great visions and an incredible ability for self-staging. Here's the story about the first real auteur in Danish cinema.

The Great War on the big screen

THEME. War is an ancient but everlasting theme in art and literature, which thereby became a natural fit for the new entertainment industry of the 1910s: cinema. War is exciting, a battle for life…