Poul Knudsen

1623 год. В маленькой датской общине показательные процессы над ведьмами поставлены на поток. Женщин, обвиненных в колдовстве, сжигают на костре; процессами руководит преподобный Абсолон Педерссен. Суровая воля пастора лишь однажды дала сбой – когда он пощадил и спас от огня мать своей второй жены, молодой Анны Педерстоттер. Теперь же пастора шантажирует приговоренная к смерти Марта Херлофа – если он не спасет ее, она грозит выдать тайну Абсолона. А жене пастора словно дела нет – она влюблена в его сына Мартина, и близок час, когда тихая, неприметная Анна поднимет бунт против мужа и безжалостной свекрови...

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)