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Himmelskibet

Holger-Madsen, 1918

Inspired by Columbus, the navy officer Avanti Planetaros endeavours to chart the cosmos and explore its strange planets. His spaceship lands on Mars, where Avanti and his crew meet a peace-loving, fruit-eating, gentle people who surely have a thing or two to teach the earthlings.

The film has English intertitles and music by Ronen Thalmay.

The Devil's Circus

Benjamin Christensen, 1926

Innocent Mary has barely arrived in the big city when she falls prey to the looming dangers of the city. First, she ends up in the home of a common thief. Then she gets a job in a circus and is caught in a dangerous game between a womanising lion-tamer and his jealous wife.

Under Savklingens Tænder

Holger-Madsen, 1913

The usurer Sintram lives and breathes for money and, for this very reason; he disinherits his charitable son Floridan. Embittered, Sintram buries his fortune in the forest and hides a will in a beech tree, with his estate left to anyone who finds it. This act is the only hard physical work the old usurer has done in his life and, ironically, the exhaustion kills him.

Lille Dorrit

A.W. Sandberg, 1924

Amy Dorrit – nicknamed Little Dorrit – was born in Marshalsea debtors prison, where her father has been incarcerated for a minor debt for the last 23 years. She lives with him in the prison at night, while going out to work as a seamstress during the day, for the unpleasant Mrs. Clennam.

Sounding Silents

THEME. What does Asta Nielsen’s gaucho dance sound like in 2023? How do you create a soundscape to accompany a Mars landing in a science fiction film from 1918? A collaboration with two music…

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…

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…

Making It Monumental

THEME. David Bordwell on 'The End of the World' and storytelling strategies characteristic of Danish silent cinema.