The year is 1658 and the King of Sweden has seized large parts of Denmark. A tenant farmer and his family on Falster are forced to look on while enemy soldiers loot and wreck their home. Only the wounded and febrile soldier Lasse Månsson does not take part in the atrocities, and when the regiment moves on, he stays in the care of the farmer. Soon, Lasse falls in love with Anna, the farmer’s daughter, and they plan a life together. But can love blossom in such dark times? (stumfilm.dk)
Abel Magwitch
A charitable childhood deed holds fateful consequences for poor Pip. An anonymous benefactor paves the way for Pip’s transformation and subsequent social ascent from peasant boy to gentleman. But he soon finds out that life among the upper-classes is no bed of roses, and Pip encounters a number of characters who shape his life for the better, and for the worse.
The Gardener
La historia está ambientada en una parroquia campestre en el siglo XVII, a la que llega un nuevo párroco para ocupar su puesto, que ha quedado vacante. El hombre se ha llevado a su prometida, pero las costumbres dictaminaban que el nuevo párroco debería casarse con la viuda del anterior. Sería además el cuarto marido de la dama en cuestión, siendo ésta muy mayor.
