In a large fish export company, the general manager's talented son Hugo holds a trusted position. When one day 500 kroner is missing from the cash...

Under the city's roofs, life goes on in a motley manner. It alternates with tears and smiles, with happiness and sadness. In the artist restaurant...

By his father’s deathbed, a young man agrees to never marry below his station. Later, he falls in love with a lowly governess, impregnates her,...

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

What might become the greatest challenge for the elderly Brasen couple having opened a summer guest house by the sea? Financial struggle or the...

A frivolous count disposes of his unwanted, newborn child in a first-class train compartment bound for Moscow. The train staff takes care of little...

Mrs. Hellertz is distraught about her son Aage, who – in spite of a good pay and generous support from home – manages to spend every...

After three long years, the young legal secretary Bodil is reunited with his former girlfriend Carsten. Their love affair flares up again, but...

Senior barrister Cornelius Thorsen is passionate about three things: good food, fine wine and above all else his lovely daughter Else. At a party,...

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

One night there is a terrible accident in the little station town of Bredsted. The young son of the rich Mogens Kragfelt is struck by the...

The 74-year-old widow, Juliane Cramer, is a very wealthy lady with an incredible appetite for life. Despite her advanced age, she rushes from one...

Anna Louise is tired of her life as a housewife in the country. So she seizes the opportunity when the vagabond Nick randomly rings the doorbell. She...

A renowned and widowed otolaryngologist hires a young, penniless poet as live-in nanny for his three rowdy – but musically gifted –...

A large Danish provincial town in the year 1888. Headmaster Wang's wife needs recreation, and the kind headmaster sends her and his youngest daughter...

After a small girl is kidnapped by a travelling circus, her heartbroken parents put their trust in their daughter’s young friend, who quickly...

We are in a small Heurigen-Café in Vienna. The young singer Fritz Hertzgruber meets a young Danish writer, Jesper Ellekilde, and the two young...

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...