Clara Schønfeld

A spare, compassionate, and astute social satire on domesticity, gender roles, and subservience.

A political drama about the three brothers Kamper: the handsome Ernst is a typographer and wants social justice through democracy; Waldo who will crush the established society; and the hunchbacked watchmaker Kurt who is a dreamer.

Do I Have the Right to Take My Own Life? - Its melodramatic story answers the question of the title with a resounding "No!". A young clerk, tempted by easy money, get involved in crooked financial dealings. When they go badly wrong, and exposure and disgrace loom, he takes his own life. Not only does his suicide plunge his wife into destitution, his own immortal soul will live in a different dimension, doomed to eternal torment.

Grænsefolket is a Danish silent film from 1927, directed by Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen based on a screenplay by Laurids Skands. (wikipedia.org)

The God-fearing vicar Niels Quist lives with his beloved daughter Mette in the small Jutland town of Vejlby. The newly elected county bailiff and local magistrate, Erik Sørensen, is the lucky fellow who wins Mette’s heart, but their happiness is short-lived: One day, the vicar’s farmhand mysteriously disappears, and all signs suggest that the vicar is the killer. But is Erik Sørensen willing and able to sentence his own true love’s father to death?

Peter Hansen, a parish clerk, is woken up in the middle of the night by a mysterious phone call. On the phone a woman screams for help, and when he hears shots shortly afterwards he knows that something is very wrong. He sets out to investigate the matter, and before he knows it he is embroiled in an actual murder mystery.

The aging professor Karker arrives in a beautiful Norwegian valley on one of his mountain trips where he meets Aase. Getting back he sends a couple of youth the same place, The Valley of Sunshine. But drama happens.