Olaf Fønss (Dr. Friedrich von Kammacher), Frederik Jacobsen (Dr. Rasmussen), Carl Lauritzen (Dr. Peter Schmidt), Ida Orloff (Ingigered Hahlstrøm), Ebba Thomsen (Eva Burns), Charles Unthan (Arthur Stoss). Based on: Atlantis / Gerhart Hauptmann. Originally produced as silent motion picture in 1913. A foreign film (Denmark). Piano accompaniment by Robert Israel. Some sequences are filmed on location in Berlin, Germany. Special features: 35 min. fragment of Atlantis which was tinted by the National Film Centre, Japan; alternate ending for Russia; 15 min. fragment of Liebelei directed by Blom and Holger-Madseb; Blom biography.
Summary:
A bacteriologist goes to Berlin to recuperate from stab wounds inflicted by his mentally-unbalanced wife (who is later institutionalized for treatment). A friend there introduces him to a dancer and is attracted to her right away. When she rejects him, he then moves to Paris, where he learns the dancer is sailing with her father to perform in America. He manages to catch up with her on the ship, but he gets turned down by her again. He is asleep and dreaming that he is exploring the lost continent of Atlantis (hence the title) when the ship starts to sink and panic ensues. He and the dancer (whose father goes down with the ship) are in the same lifeboat when a New York-bound freighter rescues them. They then make it to New York City's Greenwich Village, where the dancer turns him down once more. He then meets a sculptress; they go off together to an isolated cabin, where he collapses when informed of his wife's death. When he recovers, they move back to Europe to be parents to his three young children. There is an alternate ending to a Russian version (included) which has the bacteriologist dying of a massive heart attack upon learning of his wife's death.
Series:
Danske stumfilmklassikere = Danish silent classics
OCLC:
(OCoLC)74459125
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.