Albrecht Schmidt

Det lille lokaltog kommer møjsommeligt tøffende ind på Torslev station. Stationsforstanderen står iført tøfler på perronen og venter på toget. Da det standser, viser det sig, at der er en eneste passager med. En yngre fremmedartet, elegant klædt mand stiger ned på perronen med et par kufferter med en masse flotte mærker fra fremmede lande. Manden hedder Nelson. For mange år siden drog han udenlands. Nu vender han hjem for at se, hvordan det står til i hans fødeby.

A film about a doctor in a small idyllic town. He's an honest man who wants his patients best, but fewer and fewer visitors comes to his practice and that frustrates the doctor. A 'quack doctor' is taking his business.

This film follows two men, the plain Herkules (Ib Schønberg) and the rich Erik (Angelo Bruun). When they were boys, Erik defended his good friend Herkules. And he never forgot that fact. They stay up for each other, no matter that Erik gambles his money away, or what ever happens to Herkules.

Explora as origens da feitiçaria e do satanismo através dos séculos, desde a antiguidade até os tempos modernos. Mistura imagens reais com encenações ao longo de sete capítulos. Mostra a intolerância da Igreja Católica frente aos mitos mágicos, e como ela "resolvia" esses problemas. No final, há a comparação entre o comportamento histérico das mulheres contemporâneas (1921) com o das bruxas da Idade Média, e a conclusão é que ele é bem parecido.

When two riders come to the monastery seeking shelter for the night they inquire from one of the monks about the founding of the monastery. The old monk reluctantly recounts the story of Count Starschensky, a nobleman of wealth and property. Starschensky is blessed with domestic happiness, however, he later finds that his young wife, Elga, has been sneaking her lover into the castle in evenings when he is away, and that their only child is not his, but a product of this affair. Tragedy ensues and the count sells his estates and establishes the monastery as part of his penance.

A girl is forced to marry a irresponsible man she does not love to save her fathers reputation. At the same time she falls for a religious preacher to the poor.

These recordings were part of Valdemar Psilander’s live performance at the Royal Orfeum in Budapest, in February and March 1914. Psilander financed the show himself, and it was a mixture of film and theatre under the title Count Dahlborg’s Secret. The film footage, which unfortunately hasn’t been preserved in its entirety, opened the performance, after which Psilander himself rode onto the stage and continued the action. (stumfilm.dk)

Desiludido por problemas pessoais e profissionais, o biólogo Friedrich von Kammacher decide viajar para o exterior a fim de recuperar a alegria de viver. Durante sua jornada aventureira, ele encontrará duas mulheres muito diferentes, uma das quais será a chave de seu destino.

The player and adventurer John Robert seduces Mary, a girl from the country, and takes her to the big city of Copenhagen. There, Mary realizes that John Robert is addicted to morphine and has large debts.