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Svømmeren

Ubekendt, 1913

A lazy sculptor squanders his advance and has to think outside the box to meet his deadline. At short notice, the sculptor has received the task of carving a copy of the famous statue “The Swimmer”. However, due to time pressure, one of the sculptor’s students has to replace the marble and become a living statue.

Under Møllevingen

Ubekendt, 1913

Young engineer Jameson quickly demonstrates his worth at his new workplace. Chief engineer Hooper is more interested in drinking whisky and chasing women than in making accurate calculations for the construction plans. Jameson quickly corrects this sloppiness, and his enthusiasm impresses both the foreman’s daughter Kitty and the manager, who promotes Jameson to chief engineer.

De fire Djævle

Robert Dinesen, Alfred Lind, 1911

As children, Fritz and Adolphe are sold to a traveling showman, who trains them to become circus artists. Together with the two girls Louise and Aimée, they perform to audiences night after night while being subjected to a harsh training regimen and daily beatings. As the four friends grow up to become young adults, their master dies, and they begin to perform to an enthusiastic audience as The Four Devils.

Dr. Nicholson og den blaa Diamant

Ubekendt, 1913

Mysterious, hookah-smoking Doctor Nicholson will stop at nothing to get his hands on the valuable “blue diamond.” A rich man’s daughter, a poor French count, a marriage of convenience, bomb threats and explosions, kidnapping and cocaine are just a few of the ingredients in Nicholson’s dogged struggle to obtain the precious diamond.

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Ildfluen

Einar Zangenberg, 1913

A small girl is kidnapped by a travelling circus. Her heartbroken parents put their trust in their daughter’s young friend, who quickly catches up with the villainous travellers. But however hard the children try, they cannot escape, and as the years pass they are forced to accept their new, hard life on the road.

Den røde Klub

Ubekendt, 1914

A mysterious film! That was the succinct description in the original programme for ‘The Red Club’ in 1914. One day Baroness Sonja discovers that her boyfriend Prince Stanislaus is engaged to someone else. Red with rage, Sonja vows to seek revenge and joins the Red Club, a mysterious resistance movement for anyone, wanting to have the unpopular prince thrown out.

Badehotellet

Ubekendt, 1915

FRAGMENT | When Gregoire and Lola go on a beach holiday to the idyllic Skagen, they don't know yet that the trip will be the end of their marriage. Gregoire may be wealthy, but he is many years older and several pounds heavier than his young wife, who's beauty makes all the male holiday guests turn their necks. Baron Plessen falls in love with Lola, and she quickly gets fond of the idea of replacing her corpulent husband with a handsome nobleman.

Det indiske Gudebillede

Ubekendt, 1915

When a dying patient gives him a statue of an Indian god, the doctor John Schmidt thinks nothing of it. He barely gets home before mysterious things start happening. A knight’s armour comes to life, a servant gets ambushed, and Schmidt’s wife disappears without a trace! The secret Indian society is behind it and will do everything to get hold of the statue.

En Bryllupsaften

Einar Zangenberg, 1911

A dutiful maid is not always a blessing! That’s what a newly wed couple finds out after they return home tired and want to be left alone. Their old maid Ane has been told by the bride’s mother to give her a cup of tea before she goes to bed. The bride and groom protest, grumble and cry, but Ane won’t stop until she has done as she has been ordered!

‘A Wedding Night’ is a film adaptation of ‘Et Lystspil i en Akt’ by Peter Nansen, which was first published in the magazine ‘Af Dagens Krønike’ in October 1889.

I Tronens Skygge

Einar Zangenberg, 1914

When Prince Otto is involved in a hunting accident, the game warden’s daughter Ellen becomes his nurse. She falls head over heels in love with him and the infatuation is mutual. But when the prince’s father, the ruler, dies, it turns out that the prince’s heart is bequeathed to someone else.

En Kvindes Ære

Einar Zangenberg, 1913

Marie, the daughter of a pastor, and major Trolle are young and in love, and they seem destined to become engaged. Everything is coming up roses when a serpent enters this Paradise. Trolle’s close friend, Hoffmann, begins making passes at Marie, and even in the face of consistent rejections he remains tireless in his pursuit.

Livets Stormagter

Alfred Cohn, 1918

A tale of sorrow, love, greed and justice. The young Elisa Fontana is forced into marrying the loathsome Jan v. Goll because her father owes money to Jan’s father, the banker V.