Gernau, a successful engineer, is married to a younger woman, Anna. Their marriage is fraught with jealousy, with Anna still being wooed by her...

At the Central Theatre in the chorus girls' cloakroom, the girls have a very lively discussion: The ever-recurring topic - their various male...

FRAGMENT | Mac Davis runs a small press agency through which he conducts all sorts of shady business. Together with his helpers Clark and Durkins and...

After a misspent youth on the wrong side of the law, Teddy finally meets a woman capable of making him break with the past and settle down....

Tivoli has just opened and all of Copenhagen is on edge over the beautiful garden and not least the fantastic music. One evening, the young woman...

In 1516, King Christian II, on the advice of his Dutch-born mother Sigbrit, summoned 80 members from Holland and let them settle in St. Magleby and...

In 1911 the German poet Hugo von Hofmansthal wrote a new version of the medieval morality play Everyman, and this was staged in Danish translation at...

A monk who cherishes a secret passion for a young lady sees her receive an admirer in secret and tells her father. The father declares that he will...

The "Tango Bar" is the fashion of the moment. The city's party-goers have chosen the small, cozy, intimate local venue for the night's wee hours....

The wealthy merchant Borg buys up all the country’s grain reserves to control the prices himself. His move creates panic both on the stock...

The owner of Rønneby Kro, Bartholdi, is writing his memoirs. When this comes to the ears of prominent citizens, they rush to Rønneby...

In the idyllic provincial town of Gammelkøbing lives Emanuel Thomsen, known as Thummelumsen. It is his great dream to buy the...

Ole Eriksen is a young engineer with lots of good ideas and a lot of courage. That's why it's all the more frustrating that his immediate boss...

At the dinner for their school's 100th anniversary, three old schoolmates meet. All three have done well in life, for Eyvind is now a respected...

Mrs Clara has been married to Carl Møller for almost 25 years, but she is not happy.

Peter West goes to Copenhagen to see if he can make a living as a painter. He is quickly accepted into the circle of young artists in the city. He...

The action takes place in the bleak, overcrowded, and for many too small apartments in one of Copenhagen's bridge districts, where there are both...

On the indebted estate, Gyldenstrup, lives a spoiled and selfish lady, Mrs. Selstrup, with her two spoiled and selfish children, Ellen and Joachim....

Hilleborg always speaks negatively about her king's marriage to his left hand, Countess Danner. When it is rumored that King Frederik VII and...

There are strange things going on at Duncan Castle, where some metaphysical being seems to have been spreading a psychological disease.

At the old Copenhagen Castle, a strange drama is played out in the year 1699 - the last year of King Christian V's life. One winter day, the young...

Sailor and tomboy Else (Gerd Gjedved) is fighting for the family's schooner 'Nordstjernen'. Shipping-heir Steen (Hans Kurt) has fallen from his rich...

Michael von Straeten is an unscrupulous financier whose harshness and cynicism have earned him the nickname ‘The Tiger’. He destroys his...

Silent film

The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married...

Dr. Crampton and his wife are dining in a fashionable restaurant, where a gypsy orchestra under the leadership of Zigo, the famous hypnotic...