Danish Film Institute wrote:
Jørgen wants to propose to Marie as soon as he has been promoted and can offer her a proper home. Indeed, his future looks promising until his father, who is a bookkeeper in the town bank, tells Jørgen that he has embezzled and spent money from the bank. In order to uphold his father’s honour, Jørgen must raise the missing amount, and the only one he knows with that much ready money is his uncle, the canny merchant Ole Konge, whom his father detests. Ole Konge will only help if Jørgen marries his daughter Amalie, who has long pined for her cousin from afar..

Den.store.Magt.1925.WEB.1080p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 16 min
Size: 	2.50 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/2F3519C67417D88/Den.store.Magt.1925.WEB.1080p.mkv
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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:Danish intertitles, English

The post August Blom – Den store Magt AKA Love and Money (1925) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Countess von Würzen is of a certain age, but she still captivates the men she meets on her way. When her daughter Elsa announces her engagement to the young, handsome Leopold von Raven, the countess suddenly feels the years creeping up on her. So she cannot help herself when, at the engagement party, she finds Leopold suddenly leaning in towards her.

The film’s screenplay was written by Karin Michaëlis based on her own novel, published in 1910.

Den.Farlige.Alder.1911.WEB.1080p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	37 min 33 s
Size: 	1.41 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/B4AF1035BEC80D6/Den.farlige.alder.1911-EN.srt

Language(s):Danish intertitles
Subtitles:English

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From the Danish Film Institute website:
The titular villain is an infamous international criminal, Mrs Valentin Kempel, known as “The Predator Spider” due to her habit of ensnaring innocent victims in her web. Men are enchanted by her, and she uses this to coerce them into taking part in her criminal activities. When one of her victims takes his own life, the victim’s brother and a detective decide to put an end to the beautiful criminal’s reign of terror. But The Hunting Spider does not give in so easily – and she is not afraid to use unsporting tricks against her new opponents.

This is a fragment (about 1/3) of a feature film. It is tinted with Dutch intertitles and no score.

Important note: the script was by a young Carl Th. Dreyer!

Rovedderkoppen.mkv

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Runtime: 	25 min 13 s
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https://nitro.download/view/5F36C81C94C7851/Rovedderkoppen.mkv

Language(s):Silent (Musical Score: Carl Davis)
Subtitles:None

The post August Blom – Rovedderkoppen AKA The Spider’s Prey (1916) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Anna, a young girl from a poor but honest household, is offered an attractive position as a lady’s companion in London. Her childhood friend is worried, but she goes anyway. To Anna’s horror, the “distinguished house” turns out to be a brothel and her first customer soon awaits her. She manages to smuggle a letter for her parents out of the country, but what she doesn’t know is that her childhood friend Georg is already on his way to save her. Will Anna ever escape the white slave trade?

This film is a brazen, setup-for-setup rip-off of an identically titled film, ‘Den hvide Slavehandel’, made in the spring of 1910 by the film company Fotorama in Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus. The Fotorama version was the first Danish feature-length film (3 reels), and it was phenomenally successful. Nordisk wanted in on the action, and they simply plagarized the film, scoring a huge hit outside Denmark.

318MB | 32m 08s | 960×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8EE1E7691CC4D06/Den.hvide.slavehandel.1910.WEB.540p.mkv

Language:Silent,Danish intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Yay! Another Danish silent melodrama. Actually, this is a particularly superior example. The Danish Film Institute’s website, from which this copy comes, descrbes it thusly:

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A wealthy young man, Edgar, sees a shopgirl, Ellen, and is immediately attracted to her. He buys her flowers. They meet next Sunday and, presumably, often thereafter. Three months later Ellen is pregnant. The couple decide to marry, and Edgar tells his mother. His father convinces him not to marry Ellen and sends him away to visit friends in the country. The daughter of the family he visits, Lily, gets him to write to Ellen when she finds out about her. Edgar’s fahter, however, has convinced Ellen’s former employer, to whom the letters have been sent, to turn them over to him. When Edgar gets no reply from Ellen, he secretly returns to the city. The baby is born and Ellen dies shortly after. Lily visits from the country, and Edgar sees a notice of Ellen’s death in the newspaper. Edgar and Lily go to the hospital to claim the baby, planning also to marry. (Plot summary from: Ron Mottram, The Danish Cinema before Dreyer (1988))
An excellent example of Nordisk’s early feature production and of the “social drama” genre that pioneering film sociologist Emilie Altenloh in 1914 identified as the distinctive contribution of Danish cinema, showing “a woman’s struggle between her natural, femine-sensual instincts and social conditions conflicting with them”. Clara Wieth (née Rasmussen, later Pontoppidan) gives an absolutely delightful performance as the sweet, flirtatious shopgirl who comes to grief, and the way the film’s sympathy is very clearly on her side is quite remarkable. August Blom’s staging is unobtrusive but carefully done.

1.88GB | 51m 11s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3967F98D8D58BDA/Ekspeditricen_16fps_264.mkv

Language(s):Silent, no soundtrack
Subtitles:Danish intertitles

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