Rasmus Ottesen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hulerødgaard, Hulerød, Søborg sogn, Nordsjælland
Birthday: June 14, 1871
Deathday: March 08, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Dock Catastrophe
Overview: 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? (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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Raphael, the Gypsy
Overview: A baby’s christening turns into a nightmare when Baron and Baroness von Wilhjelm’s young son is kidnapped by travellers. Mother and son are reunited after 20 years apart, when the band of travellers sets up camp at the very same estate where the Baroness resides. Raphael, as he is now named, has become a handsome young man, whom women swoon over. He is caught in the middle of an intense battle for his affections between the Count’s daughter Inger and the traveller girl Zelma. The Baroness, who is still none the wiser that the man in front of her is her own son, is concerned about the love affair blossoming between her niece and the dangerous traveller. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1914-09-10
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Den kloge mand
Overview: A film about a doctor in a small idyllic town. He's an honest man who wants his patients best, but fewer and fewer visitors comes to his practice and that frustrates the doctor. A 'quack doctor' is taking his business.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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His Guilty Conscience
Overview: The young clerk Poul Wang is squandering his fortune on festive pleasures while being shadowed by a mysterious unknown figure. The following day, payment is due and Poul has to clandestinely visit a local loan shark. The growing interest rates tempt Poul to steal from his workplace, but he is discovered by a watchful colleague. In desperation, he robs his own family’s savings, narrowly avoiding being fatally shot by his own wife, who mistakes him for a common burglar. Just as everything looks impossibly bleak, the mysterious stranger comes to the rescue. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1914-03-23
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Everyman
Overview: 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. It depict the moral choice confronting its protagonist at struggle because two attendant spirits, one good and one bad. The protagonist is tempted by dark figure of evil and succumbs, rejecting God and leading a life of iniquity, but he is then haunted by guilty visions until he finally dies, asking God for forgiveness at the last moment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1915-09-09
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Ditte, Child of Man
Overview: Ditte is born out of wedlock and lives as a young girl with her old beloved grandmother. As an illegitimate child she is teased in school and more than anything in the world she wants a father. When steady - utterly reliable - herring dealer Lars Petter shows up and tells her that he is marrying Ditte's mother, the little girl is very happy. Now Ditte must take care of three new sisters and brothers but gets nothing but complaints from her ungrateful, selfish mother. But the little girl finds consolation and support in both her sisters and brothers and Lars Petter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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The Imposter
Overview: The wealthy merchant Borg buys up all the country’s grain reserves to control the prices himself. His move creates panic both on the stock exchange and in the streets. However, he meets the seductive Vera, and with her, misfortunes follow one after another like pearls on a necklace. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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The Demon
Overview: An early Norwegian short film from 1911.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1911-11-14
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For frihed og ret
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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The Pride of the Circus
Overview: A tightrope walker from a traveling circus falls deeply in love with the mayor's daughter in a small seaside town. When he saves her from a deadly fire, his feelings are reciprocated by the young woman, who immediately accepts his marriage proposal. To spite the mayor's disapproval of the liaison between his daughter and the poor artist, the tightrope walker prepares a sensational but dangerous act, that will make him worthy of his bride. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1912-03-20
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The Golden Horns
Overview: Using motifs from the classic Adam Oehlenschläger poem, the legend of the Golden Horns is told across four different epochs: the discovery of the first golden horn in 1639, the discovery of the second golden horn in 1734, the theft of the golden horns in 1802, and the saga of the golden horns in contemporary times. Emilie Sannom and Emanuel Gregers star in all four episodes, playing a young couple fighting to be together. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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The Hypnotic Violinist
Overview: Dr. Crampton and his wife are dining in a fashionable restaurant, where a gypsy orchestra under the leadership of Zigo, the famous hypnotic violinist, are playing. Struck by her beauty, a desire to possess her overwhelms Zigo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1914-04-06
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