Poul Knudsen

Dinamarca, 1623. En plena caza de brujas, Absalom, un viejo sacerdote, promete a una mujer condenada a muerte que salvará a su hija Anne de la hoguera si la joven accede a casarse con él. Según la ley, las descendientes de las brujas también deben arder en una pira. Meret, la anciana madre de Absalom, desaprueba desde el principio el matrimonio. Cuando Martin, el hijo de Absalom, regresa a casa para conocer a su madrastra, se enamorará de ella y ambos compartirán una relación prohibida que tendrá inesperadas consecuencias.

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.

La historia de la película se basa en el tópico del payaso que llora, el de que detrás de la sonrisa que aparenta el payaso se puede encontrar una vida llena de pesares y contratiempos...

The year is 1820 and a young, promising artist, Olaf Malm, has settled in Rome, Europe’s centre of art at the time. He is in love with Sigrid, but class differences make their love impossible. Olaf Malm dies in a tragic accident; he allegedly drowns in the Tiber, but his body is never found. Sigrid gives birth to their lovechild, and twenty years later history repeats itself: their son, Henry, who has never known his real parents, loves a woman who is far above him in social rank. Fate brings him back to Rome, where his parents loved and lost each other many years before. (stumfilm.dk)

Attorney Krogh and his wife, Gerda, are distraught about their only son, Kai, a wastrel and ne’er-do-well with no aim or direction in life. Kai again asks his mother for money and Gerda cannot refuse, even selling her jewellery when her son falls deep into debt. Can Kai be steered away from the abyss that awaits him? (stumfilm.dk)