Valdemar Psilander

The Film in the Film

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different perso...

A Marriage of Convenience

Love the Conqueror

Alice, the seventeen-year-old daughter of millionaire John Payne, is dying. Doctor Sheldon, deep in grief due t...

The Great Circus Catastrophe

Of the films that Psilander made at Nordisk during the first two years it is the film Dødsspring til Hest fra C...

The Black Dream

Stella, a circus princess, has two suitors: young, handsome Count Waldberg and the greying, hidebound jeweller...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner uglin...

A Victim of the Mormons

On a holiday, the family Gram meets a young, mysterious man who turns out to be a Mormon. In spite of her fianc...

A Golden Heart

er.After a series of failed stock market speculations, the banker Grant is on the verge of bankruptcy. To make...

Love's Devotee

Two friends, Fritz and Theodor, make the acquaintance of Christine and Mizzi, who are also friends. Fritz is im...

In Defense of the Nation

Out of the blue, war is declared, making two otherwise friendly neighbouring nations deadly enemies. Amid the i...

Goofy Movies Number Two

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy s...

Love in the Tropics

The young Englishman Cecil Brown lives and works on a tea plantation in India. When he is about to set off to L...

A Revolution Marriage

It’s the spring of 1793 and the French Revolution is raging. King Louis XVI had been beheaded in Paris a few mo...

The Right of Youth

Court huntsman, Søtoft, is courting his daughter Else’s lady-in-waiting, Miss Engelke. That’s why it’s a bit of...

The Aviator's Generosity

When journalist Warren discovers that a charming pilot is about to seduce his wife, he decides to take revenge....

A Fatal Lie

Doctor Willy Prager’s long, selfless office hours come at the expense of his attention-seeking fiancée. During...

The Candle and the Moth

Young hothead Billy, quick to speak and drifting into a life of crime, has many encounters the community's lay...

The Ballet Dancer

The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a...

The Price of Beauty

Countess von Würzen is of a certain age, but she still captivates the men she meets on her way. When her daught...

Lydia

A young bank clerk Karl Fribert falls hopelessly in love with the celebrated operetta primadonna Lydia, and fai...

The Road to Happiness

Peter Niemand, a blacksmith by trade, is prone to drink and has something of a bad reputation with his comrades...

Vanquished

A beautiful but eccentric countess amuses herself by subjecting her numerous suitors to silly tests. Most men t...

Fire at Sea

The popular artist Frank Harvey has been offered a job in America. On the voyage across the Atlantic, Harvey ca...

Kærlighedsleg

About all the complications that can arise when women appear in men's costumes, even if it's to save a friend i...

The Clown

The circus clown Joe Higgins is scouted by a world famous artist agent, who promises him fame and fortune. Joe...

Lady Mary's Love

Miss Vibeke takes no pleasure in hearing of her fiancé’s imminent arrival. For she is in fact in love with a ha...

The Monomaniac

A movie about monomania from 1914.

Midsummer-Time

The merchant’s son Aage wants to save his father from bankruptcy by marrying the rich man’s daughter Irma. Aage...

When Bacchus Reigns

When Lucca meets Lt Victor quite by chance, he sweeps her off her feet in a whirlwind romance and the couple ar...

Count Dahlbog's Secret

FRAGMENT | These recordings were part of Valdemar Psilander’s live performance at the Royal Orfeum in Budapest,...

Temptations of a Great City

Mrs. Hellertz is distraught about her son Aage, who – in spite of a good pay and generous support from home – m...

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Alone with the Devil

The manufacturer Laroque stops at nothing when trying to destroy his enemies, and this time Fréderic Nessières,...

Strejken paa den gamle Fabrik

The Man Without a Future

While holidaying, the beautiful heiress Grace meets the love of her life. Percy Fancourt is a cowboy and hardly...