Axel Boesen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Frederiksberg, Denmark
Birthday: February 10, 1879
Deathday: June 14, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Confidence Trick
Overview: Jens Larsen has worked hard to become a wealthy man in America, and when he travels home to visit Denmark, the people he meets are extremely acommodating. A little too acommodating, as it turns out. The only surviving film of the Danish series about the world famous detective Sherlock Holmes that ran between 1908-1911.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1910-11-04
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The Man With Nine Fingers IV
Overview: A Danish crime film about a master criminal with 9 fingers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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The Clown
Overview: The circus clown Joe Higgins is scouted by a world famous artist agent, who promises him fame and fortune. Joe takes the offer on one condition: His fiancèe Daisy and her parents are coming with him. Soon, Joe finds himself performing on the biggest stages in the city, enthralling his audience night after night. But the glamorous life in the big city is no fairy tale after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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Love Your Neighbor!
Overview: There’s an uproar in the small fishing village, as the greedy businessman Consul Warming forces the fishermen to work both day and night. The kind-hearted Pastor Strøm defends the men, but he’s immediately suspended and eventually goes to the dogs. When a violent storm puts both the consul and his daughter – Strøm’s beloved – into danger, the vicar from the sea defies both his position and the forces of nature to save them. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1918-12-11
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The Actor's Love-Story
Overview: 19-year-old Melitta von Windheim is profoundly fascinated by the famous actor Ludvig Romay. That’s why she can hardly believe her own good fortune, as it turns out that her cousin Rudolf is an old friend of Romay and wants to introduce them. Romay and Melitta hit it off straight away, and before poor Rudolf can look twice, the woman he’s in love with is married off to someone else. Over the years, the marriage crumbles, and a tragic accident hits Melitta so hard that she has to leave for warmer climes. Romay continues his career and the wild social life that comes with it, but his past suddenly catches up with him. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1920-11-05
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The Love of a Gypsy Girl
Overview: A female ‘gypsy’ – in the parlance of the time – must choose between helping her own camp or a kidnapped girl. The woman once fell in love with the local count. However, without hesitation, the count left her heartbroken for a rich aristocratic girl who seduced him. Years later, the count refuses to pay alms to the gypsy camp, so a couple of desperate gypsies decide to kidnap his five-year-old daughter. The scorned woman recognises her old beloved count in the child’s face and decides to do the right thing. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-01-09
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Fire at Sea
Overview: The popular artist Frank Harvey has been offered a job in America. On the voyage across the Atlantic, Harvey catches sight of the captain’s beautiful daughter, and the two quickly become good friends. However, a fire breaks out in the ship’s hold, and while the crew struggles to put out the flames, Harvey has to keep the passengers calm with his very best performances, and pray for his and the lives of others. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1912-10-02
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Alone with the Devil
Overview: The manufacturer Laroque stops at nothing when trying to destroy his enemies, and this time Fréderic Nessières, one of his competitors, is in the line of fire. With his diabolical, hypnotic power, Laroque has snared Nessières’s wife, Madeleine, in his evil web, and she will now do anything to help her husband’s enemy. But even though Laroque’s first plan to ruin Nessières fails, he does not give up. Once he has selected a victim, he will quite literally fight to the death to vanquish them. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1914-03-15
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The Candle and the Moth
Overview: Young hothead Billy, quick to speak and drifting into a life of crime, has many encounters the community's lay preacher, John Redmond. Billy's conscience stirs as Redmond recounts his life's story. Holger-Madsen supplied three different endings for the film's various releases.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1915-02-18
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The Man Without a Future
Overview: While holidaying, the beautiful heiress Grace meets the love of her life. Percy Fancourt is a cowboy and hardly a suitable match for a millionaire’s daughter – at least not if you ask her father. Reluctantly, she returns home. Then, a surprising piece of news reaches heartbroken Percy: a huge estate in London has been willed to him as sole heir. Will his newfound wealth make his marriage to Grace possible? (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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Peace on Earth
Overview: A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace – pax aeterna. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. When the neighbouring state declares war, the prince’s heart stops beating. Is the vision of global peace just a naive dream, or will his followers be able to see it through? (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1917-02-15
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Beyond the Barricade
Overview: Family man Poul Berg is tempted by a questionable investement offer and indebts himself to a point where suicide seems like the only way out. His widow struggles to maintain even a simple standard of living for herself and their three children, who are fatally marked by their fathers deed. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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A Victim of the Mormons
Overview: On a holiday, the family Gram meets a young, mysterious man who turns out to be a Mormon. In spite of her fiancèe's presence, the daughter Nina is drawn to the stranger. Hypnotized, she soon follows his every step. When she finally awakes from her trance, she finds herself on a ship to Utah, in the clutches of a dangerous man. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-10-02
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The Vampire Dancer
Overview: The man-hungry “vampire,” later to be popularized by America’s Theda Bara, made her screen debut in this Danish melodrama directed by August Blom. Clara Wieth starred in the title role of the Vampire Dancer, which is just what she was: a dancer performing her seductions on-stage. Off-stage, the young girl is kindhearted and a bit naïve. The lustful dance, during which Robert Dinesen succumbs to the dancer’s fatal charms, remained the centerpiece of the film, which was a popular success and made Wieth an international star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1912-03-04
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One Life One Love
Overview: At a party, Frede meets the popular actress Edith, with whom he falls head over heels in love. One day, he’s in the theatre to see her perform, he overhears a conversation which shows her in a new and bad light. Frede chooses to travel away, and he doesn’t see Edith until many years later, when she comes on an unannounced visit. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1913-06-23
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The Right of Youth
Overview: Court huntsman, Søtoft, is courting his daughter Else’s lady-in-waiting, Miss Engelke. That’s why it’s a bit of a punch in the stomach when, late one evening, he discovers his son Ove in close contact with her. Chamberlain von Plessen, who had been gossiping to Søtoft and is himself spying on the young couple, is going to set fire to the room they’re in. The hurt Søtoft wants to leave the young couple to their cruel fate – that is until he discovers that it’s not Engelke, but his daughter Else, who is trapped in the flames with her brother. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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A Sorry Knight
Overview: FRAGMENT | Hannibal comes across as a total lunatic in his desperate attempt to impress Miss Alma and her father. The troubles arise when Hannibal forgets his nicest shirt at home. Only at Alma’s house does he discover – to his horror – that he is still wearing his striped woollen shirt. Now it’s up to Hannibal to complete the dinner party without revealing his sheepish truth. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-09
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Den stjaalne Minister
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1949-08-22
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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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With Full Music
Overview: The attic of a city house is the home to a colony of artists. Among them is a writer, whose corpus is larger than her output. We also meet a hard-of-hearing poet who can still hear the grass growing. There's a painter, a sculptor and more. All are penniless - hoping that one day they will experience their breakthrough. "The Seventh Heaven", as the corridor is called, also houses two prominent residents, Fyrtårnet and Bivognen. They have set up a small diner and engage lively with the artist from the colony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Treasure-Hat
Overview: A poor painter known as Peter Daub is putting the finishing touches on his latest painting. While working, Peter takes delivery of a new chest of drawers. He pays for the shipment with a top hat, which he later learns contained a treasure. A wild hunt through the city ensues, searching for the valuable hat. (Stumfilm. dk)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1918-04-22
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Towards the Light
Overview: Countess Ysabel is a young and rich woman with many suitors. An elegant and adventurous baron has managed to win her heart, but she anyway continues to play with other men’s feelings. Nemesis hits her when a young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron at the same time reveals a horrible secret. Ysabe'ls world seems to fall apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1919-07-30
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The Lost Bride
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1915-01-11
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Vanquished
Overview: A beautiful but eccentric countess amuses herself by subjecting her numerous suitors to silly tests. Most men turn into frenzied dogs in the company of the countess, but there’s one who behaves differently in quite a lascivious way. Chas Burns isn’t easily ordered around and won’t hesitate to do anything to get his way. Not even when it turns out that a death ride on the rails is the only direct route to success and the countess’ cunning heart. (Stumfilm.dk)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1912-09-30
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Through the Enemy's Lines
Overview: During ceasefire, young lieutenant Brenner gets permission to visit his old father. On his way he rescues an enemy officer from a mean ambush – a favour that will later save his life. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1915-01-21
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The Black Hood
Overview: Sherlock Holmes is hired to locate a husband abducted by “The Black Hood". (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Mysteriet på Duncan Slot
Overview: There are strange things going on at Duncan Castle, where some metaphysical being seems to have been spreading a psychological disease.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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In the Hands of Imposters
Overview: On her way to her aunt's house, motherless young Edith is kidnapped by a white slave trader and put in a brothel. Luckily Mr. Faith, Edith's travel acquaintance, senses that something is wrong.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-01-23
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When Passion Blinds Honesty
Overview: The poor shipwright's daughter Hulda i dating the equally poor clerk Aage. One day she meets theatre manager Winckler who makes her a famous varieté star. Despite her many new suitors, Hulda still only has eyes for Aage. But, as Hulda proclaims, she cannot marry an impoverished clerk. The burning desire for Hulda pushes Aage to desperate measures. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1911-11-16
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