Rasmus Ottesen

This movie is about human destinies and tragedies, centering on the life of Ditte, a poor young Danish girl in the countryside. (imdb)

A tightrope walker is determined to marry the mayor's daughter despite his old flame, the gypsy, having other intentions.

The story of Den Fremmede, the earliest of the surviving Gliickstadt films, revolves around Poul Wang (Emanuel Gregers), a confidential clerk for a trading company. One evening he goes to a nightclub with some friends while his wife, Clara (Gudrun Houlberg), waits at home. He cannot pay his bill and, in his drunkenness, asks that it be sent to his home the next morning. When the bill arrives, he still cannot pay it; apparently it is for a rather large sum.

In 1911 the German poet Hugo von Hofmansthal wrote a new version of the medieval morality play Everyman, and this was staged in Danish translation at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in 1915. At the time, it was radical example of symbolist abstraction. Its success inspired a film version, Enhver [Everyman], directed by Vilhelm Glückstadt for Filmfabrikken Danmark. The film, however, was set in a modern-day environment.

A Danish drama from Vilhelm Glückstadt.

Ebbe Rode plays the central and fictional protagonist who travels the country to express his frustrations. He is against the congress in the country and wants to work for more power to the people. During his travels, he meets many prominent gentlemen - and a couple of lovely women - and goes through many political ups and downs before the free constitution is a reality.

Gernau, a successful engineer, is married to a younger woman, Anna. Their marriage is fraught with jealousy, with Anna still being wooed by her former sweetheart. When an accident occurs at the inauguration of his life’s work, The Dock, Gernau’s world collapses. He loses his mind and is admitted to a mental hospital. As he gradually returns to his former self, an old obsession stirs: is Anna faithful to him?