Aage Brandt

Based on Johann Nestroys comedy "Der boese Geist Lumpazivagabundus" (1833).

A criminal gang is out to get a secret formula from a former member. In their mission to find it they kidnap the mans daughter. But don't worry, Bessie Fairbanks is on the case!

A Danish short about the tragedies of war.

A married couple has financial troubles.

Robert Fielding has in his time seen better days, but his carelessness and bad company made him run through the fortune which was left him by his father. Now he walks the streets in rags, being so reduced to poverty. But no one has any sympathy for him, because he is young, and a strong-looking man, and ought to be able to get his living by working... (imdb)

Just before bedtime, Christian overhears a conversation between his grandmother and shopkeeper Blache. While Blache stubbornly insists that wealth is the only true happiness, the grandmother believes that a bright mind is worth more than its weight in gold. Christian agrees with Blache, but at night – filled with anticipation before his forthcoming birthday – he dreams of something that makes him see the matter in quite a different light.

Having grown up in poverty, the ambitious Nana is determined to break out of it. She becomes part of the Paris theatre scene and gets involved with several of the men who court her. However, Nana’s impoverished past catches up with her, and the story comes to a tragic end.

Margrethe is in love with Worm, who only sees her as a fleeting youthful infatuation. When he suddenly leaves, he abandons both Margrethe and their unborn son. Fate leads them down vastly different paths, and their son Hans grows up and is forced to become a criminal. One day, Worm decides to seek out the woman and child he’d abandoned, and the first meeting between father and son turns out to be quite different from what he’d imagined.