Johannes Meyer

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

The content of the film is implicit in the title: we are witness to the power of Evil through the ages, linked together by images of turning pages... (All Movie Guide)

Stars Ib Schønberg as the executive, who fires his worker (Poul Reichhardt). The worker fights to stay away from alcholism, with problems at home, while the executive slowly gets more and more addicted to alcoholism himself, with problems at every level. (IMDB Comments)

A professor's daughter, comes from a rich home, gets amnesia and is involved with some low-life people in a slum area. She falls in love with the tough guy (played by Ebbe Rode), who recently got out of prison. He continues his live based on crime, and she follows him. (imdb user comment)

This is about a collector and a convicted but innocent young man is a magnificent drama. Ib Schønberg plays Henrik Verle, a middle-aged bachelor who lives alone with his lifelong true maid Mary. He is an obsessive collector of just about anything. Verle used to go to school with Professor Smith; a scientist who was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his recent project. However, he was killed before he was able to finish it, and his assistant Erik Menkel was accused of having committed the murder. (imdb user comments)

A quiet soldier falls head over heels for the insecure waitress Jenny who turns out to be dealing with problems even love has difficulty solving.

Lau Lauritzen plays an ordinary architect, with a wife and a son. He gets accused for killing a 10-year old girl, and of course nobody doubts he's the one. Even his wife and his uncle has trouble believing him, but at least they don't tell him. (imdb)

An elderly man, Steen, picks up Else, a hitch-hiking girl, and a romance sparks. Their relationship, unfortunately, turns out to be doomed.

The complicated plot of this movie centers on the married couple Max and Grethe. Grethe is sickeningly jealous, and one day she becomes a witness to murder, but will the right guy be held responsible?

The elderly rob people to entertain themselves.

The young, beautiful and talented secretary Eva (Ghita Nørby) is tired of indecent offers from men who want to have her as their toys. Eva other hand, will not owned by anyone; she will be rich and independent, and she therefore decides that she wants to marry a very rich man and separated as soon as possible ...

The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. (allmovie.com)

"Die Gezeichneten" was the fourth film directed by the Danish Carl Theodor Dreyer in the silent year of 1922; it is not a well-known film but has survived in different prints in four different silent archives around the silent world. The film was a German production and had the participation of many international actors although Dreyer preferred Russian actors for the main characters of the film because he thought that they were better than the German actors. (imdb)

A Danish comedy about 3 fishermen and a girl.

De blaa drenge is a 1933 Danish family film classic directed by George Schnéevoigt and written by frequent collaborator Fleming Lynge with the score by Kai Normann Andersen. The film stars performer Liva Weel. The story takes place at a school with focus on the local theater group.

We follow a group of artists living in the same building with singer Liva Weel as their inspiration and lifeline.

Incognito (Danish: Inkognito) is a 1937 Danish family film directed by Valdemar Lauritzen and starring Ib Schønberg.

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. (imdb)

Editor Halling is always looking for sensations in his newspaper. He believes in the principle that readers must have what they like,and he therefore notes with satisfaction that there has been a new large jewel theft, the fifth in the last 14 days. It is apparently an unusually cunning gang and the police are powerless. Between the numerous newspaper delivery is the little newspaper girl Suzanne, called Sus, and she manage a small newsstand in Adelgade.

It begins in a villa in Frederiksberg, Vibeke is a 15 year old schoolgirl daughter of the mother-in-law of Professor Dreyer. He is divorced from her mother and has a little child with his other wife Maggi . But the troubled temper of the professor prevents him from falling into marriage, and a connection with the cabaret singer Britta Borch gives rise to a battle between husband and wife.

Jealousy, intrigue, love triangles and forgotten secrets abound on the beautiful old estate of Hejrenaes where Vibeke and Hans-Henrik Thann, a young inseparable sibling couple, have grown up together.

Based on the novel by Herman Bang, about Tine experiencing the outbreak of the war in 1864, where she is to housekeep and take care of a mansion in wear time, while having a love affair with the master, while his wife is away.

Two cheerful musicians, Flink and Villy, reach an old castle "Bullerborg" Carefully they look inside, and as they do not find anybody, they decide to settle in Bullerborg so far. But by the next day, the famous lawyer Krach and friend, Mrs Lulu Lassen, are in the castle. Flink and Villy then conclude that they will lure the castle from Director Hannibal because there are plans to build an airfield that will increase the price of the castle.

Two married lawyers (Gunnar Lauring and Beatrice Bonnesen) each represent a part of a divorcing couple (Sigfred Johansen and Inga Schultz). No holds barred. Christian Arhoff is in a supporting role as an eccentric artist.

The young beautiful Laura Heiberg is going to be married to Torsten Vinge. When the priest asks if she wants to marry him, she says no and escapes from the church.

Everything breathes peace in the old merchant's house. Mads has to go to the station and pick up the merchant Kelbjerg's daughter Ida. She has just passed the high school diploma and comes home to have a much needed summer vacation.

The nice householder Lauritz fights for the day and the road - especially for the sake of his granddaughter Adda and the orphanage children Pelle and Ole. When Lauritz injures his back, just as the harvest is approaching, the situation is threatening. And it gets worse when the evil manager at Bakkegården decides to recover an old debt.

One of this year's major sporting events is probably the football match Denmark - Austria. On the turf, as in the spectator's space, there are wretched duels.

Christmas Eve, and some are finding it easier to look forward to the upcoming celebrations than others. In the home of Widow Ejlersen and her adult son John, money is tight. John has spent his last dime on his mother’s rent, and as his boss refuses to give him an advance, he cannot even buy her a Christmas present. That evening, John drifts aimlessly along the wintry streets while his boss, manufacturer Berg, and his little daughter Else open large presents in their beautiful, warm living room.

Detective Tom Barker investigates the death of a man found with his watch stopped on the exact time the night train to New York passed.

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.

A past lover ignites a fiery gambling addiction within the reckless Prince Spinarosa. The old lover, Asta Leonhard, ensures that the prince acquires a royal gambling debt. Princess Spinarosa is a famous dancer in her own right and graciously offers her husband a piece of jewellery to cover his debt. One day she sees Asta wearing that very same piece of jewellery. Shattered by humiliation, the Princess realises that she must walk away from the prince and everything she knows.

The count makes his new wife jealous when he helps a female rider who makes obvious advances at him. Lydia has barely forgiven her husband before things go wrong again. During a horse race, the count has a terrible accident that leaves him paralysed. Lydia must be strong and make up her mind: How far is she willing to go to help her beloved?

In her young years, Maria had to support herself and her law student fiancee under severe pressure by entering into a 'fixed agreement' with editor Asp. Many years later he wants to resume the relationship.

Christmas is just around the corner in 1860s Copenhagen, and when three cheerful, student brothers receive an invitation from the priest in the idyllic Nøddebo Parsonage, they strike. It will be a Christmas according to all the rules of art - added a little drama and a good deal of romance.

Social Democratic propaganda film produced at the behest of the Hovedorganisationens Informations- og Propagandaafdeling. Created to support the party programme, which had the slogan "Danmark for the People" leading up to the election in 1938. The film follows the young warehouse manager Henning's political awakening through the meeting with the young DSU member Inger and the party's 'clear and sensible policy'.