Hasse Ekman – Dårskapens hus AKA House of Folly (1951)

During excavations made in Stockholm in the year 2248, archaeologists find 45,000 meters of film reels from the 1940s, which turn out to be feature films by master director Hasse Ekman. The material is in total disarray, but the Association of Ancient Film Research compiles the reels according to what they believe to have been the master’s artistic intent.

The story is compiled from eight of Hasse Ekman’s 40’s movies – one of the first (the first?) films to consist exlusively of samples from a director’s prior work. Ekman chose this solution as a response to the strike among Swedish actors at the time. The only original take is the one in color in the start with the “professor” and hottie Eva Henning (Ekman’s wife at the time) as his assistant.
Supposedly, several of the actors were furious about their scenes being exploited this way. The montage even links scenes that suggest gay romance between straight characters.

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 14mn
Size: 	641 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	608x464 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 100 Kbps
BPP: 	0.156
Audio
#1:  	1.0ch MP3

https://nitro.download/view/B7533E1436A5B0E/Daarskapens_hus.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/DA69B6416A18EC4/Daarskapens_Hus.srt

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English