마녀 사냥이 한창이던 17세기 노르웨이의 어느 마을. 나이 많고 엄격한 목사 압살론과 그의 젊은 후처 안느는 사랑 없는 결혼생활을 하고 있다. 어느 날 전처의 아들인 마틴이 신학공부를 마치고 집에 돌아온다. 안느는 젊고 잘생긴 마틴에게 사랑을 느끼기 시작하며 그와 맺어지기 위해 남편인 압살론의 죽음을 바란다.
10년 이상 영화를 못 만들고 있던 칼 테오도르 드레이어가 나치 독일의 지배하에 있던 고국에서 완성시킨 영화로 그 묘한 긴장감은 그의 작품 중에서 특히 인상적이다.
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.
Joe, a circus clown, has a chance meeting with a famous French fashion designer, who – enthralled by Joe’s artistic talent – gets him a job in Paris. He quickly becomes the talk of the town, but as we know, wealth and happiness do not always go hand in hand, as opulent big-city living tragically seals the poor clown’s fate.
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)
