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Bukseskørtet

Ubekendt, 1911

A radical fashion trend makes women swoon and men scoff. Can you imagine – trousers for women? Unfortunately for two ladies, the moralising society will soon teach them a lesson about dressing modestly.

The film has Danish intertitles.

De tossede Kvindfolk

Lau Lauritzen Sr., 1917

Business partners Storch and Søndergaard are in for a very confusing day. The birthday child Storch reminds Søndergaard that it is his wedding day, which prompts Søndergaard to immediately send flowers home to his wife. In response, Mrs Søndergaard sends a lunch invitation to her husband as well as a birthday card to Storch.

Hallo! Afrika forude!

Lau Lauritzen Sr., 1929

Spirits are always high at the quayside pub The Red Rabbit. One day, adventurers Pat and Patachon come by to look for work. Their luck is in! A police raid sends all the staff to prison.

Det berygtede Hus

Urban Gad, 1912

A young woman, Nina, works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety theatre, but when her contract expires she suddenly finds herself with no income to support her and her old mother. Upon seeing a newspaper advertisement looking for singers for a theatre in St. Petersburg, Nina jumps at the chance – and a few weeks later she is on her way.

Atlantis

August Blom, 1913

With his wife admitted to a mental hospital and his academic career beset on all sides, Doctor von Kammacher goes abroad to regain his strength and his joy of life. On the trip, he meets two very different women, one of whom will decide his fate.

Due to a technical error a brief sequence in the middle of the film is missing.

Silent films, white slavery and rape myths

THEME. New theme about white slavery in silent films. Frida Lind Stokkebæk connects the conflicts played out in the early cinema to our present day.

Asta Nielsen – #Bosslady

THEME. If Asta Nielsen had died only recently, we would be wearing t-shirts with her name emblazoned across our chests. We would sip our morning coffee from cups graced with her dark-rimmed staring…

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.

Funny guys get into trouble

THEME. A governess astray, the Don Juan dreams of a colonel and seriously thirsty revellers – the early farces are populated by caricatures rushing around guided by simple desires. Although the…

Risking life and limb – on land, at sea and in the air

They rose high and fell hard, the daredevils among the silent film era’s actors, stuntwomen and stuntmen as they performed spectacular and at times downright life-threatening feats of foolhardiness…