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In dem grossen Augenblick

Urban Gad, 1911

FRAGMENT | When the maid Annie falls pregnant by a nephew of the owner of the estate where she works, she’s sent away. The child is given up for adoption and grows up on the estate. One day, when Annie wants her child back, her only friend, Johann, helps her with the abduction.

Minder fra Zünftens Dage

Valdemar Andersen, 1926

A Danish journeyman carpenter, Søren Hvid, and his friend Christian are travelling through Germany as part of their journeyman years, known as being ‘on the Walz’. They are accepted into the brotherhood of journeymen with the usual rituals prescribed for such events, meet fellow craftsmen on their travels and find work in a lumber yard. Their bindles, distinctive twisted canes and ‘travelling books’ remain with them all the way.

Han spiller Fodbold

Lau Lauritzen Sr., 1919

For rentier Back – senior football fan – it’s always coming home. Unfortunately for the domestic peace, his finicky wife doesn’t share his enthusiasm for football at all. When Mrs.

Den sorte Drøm

Urban Gad, 1911

Stella, a circus princess, has two suitors: young, handsome Count Waldberg and the greying, hidebound jeweller Hirsch. Stella’s love for Waldberg drives Hirsch mad with jealousy. He will stop at nothing to be near the woman of his dreams.

Pigen fra Palls

Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen, 1916

Young Elly lives in the fishing town of Whitley as the foster daughter of the greedy merchant Brown. When Brown suddenly raises gasoline prices, the local fishermen revolt. The events escalate to a huge gasoline fire, Brown’s death and poor Elly’s capture by pirates.

Lykkens Galoscher

Gunnar Sommerfeldt, 1921

Everybody wishes for the happiness just outside their reach, without regard to the cost. One day, a pair of magical galoshes appear in the big city, which have the power to grant the wishes of anyone who wears them. The galoshes find their way to many wearers from all walks of life, who all learn an important lesson about being content with what they have.

En Kæreste for meget

Johannes Meyer, 1924

Baron Preben is an unfortunate man – at least when it comes to the ladies. He has long waited for an opportunity to declare his true feelings for his good friend Ida. So when a romantic rival shows up during Midsummer celebrations, Preben has to propose sooner than he would like.

Grænsefolket

Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen, 1927

FRAGMENT | The Family Steffensen lives on a farm in Southern Jutland. The area has been under German rule for 60 years, when WW I suddenly breaks out. The possibility of regaining the lost land brings new hope to the border people, but the poor Steffensen's farm is threatened by compulsory sale.

Det hemmelighedsfulde X

Benjamin Christensen, 1914

Not long before marine officer van Hauen goes off to war and heavy-heartedly leaves his family, he coincidentally discovers that his wife has a secret liaison with the dubious Count Spinelli. What the van Hauens do not yet know, is that the sleazy Spinelli has a hidden agenda.

The film has English subtitles and music by Neil Brand.

Lasse Månsson fra Skaane

A.W. Sandberg, 1923

The year is 1658 and the King of Sweden has seized large parts of Denmark. A tenant farmer and his family on Falster are forced to look on while enemy soldiers loot and wreck their home. Only the wounded and febrile soldier Lasse Månsson does not take part in the atrocities, and when the regiment moves on, he stays in the care of the farmer.

Jokeren

Georg Jacoby, 1928

It is springtime, and people from near and far set out for Nice to attend the city’s annual carnival. However, a car accident becomes the catalyst of a complicated love story and a showdown between a fashionable con artist and a young bon vivant known as ‘The Joker’.

The film is a Danish-German co-production between Nordisk and Horwa-Goron-Film der Deutsch Nordischen Film-Union and was Nordisk's final big scale production before the company went bankrupt in 1928.

Det sovende Hus

Guðmundur Kamban, 1926

As their shared wealth disappears, Elisabet’s love for her husband Richard also evaporates. She leaves him and finds a new husband with his finances in order. When the new husband subsequently leaves her and her daughter falls ill, Elisabet understands she is at fault and asks for Richard’s forgiveness.