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A Common Film Culture? - Theme issue on Danish-German film relations during the silent era

15. jan 2020. The authors behind this issue of Kosmorama are all part of the three-year Danish-German research project: 'A Common Film Culture? Denmark and Germany in the Silent Movie Era, 1910-1930'. In this…

Benjamin Christensen’s Wonderful Adventure: Film History and Practitioner’s Agency

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In 1923, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film in Germany, 'Seine Frau, die Unbekannte', a comedy about a blinded war veteran who regains his sight, but fails to recognize…

World Agents and Mighty Filmmakers – The Transnational Business Relations of Palladium

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. The film company Palladium was highly successful throughout the 1920s, an exception in an otherwise troubled period for the Danish film industry. Films featuring Fyrtårnet and Bivognen…

Valdemar Psilander – A World Star in Danish Film

06. mar 2017. Around the world, thousands of women’s hearts throbbed when Valdemar Psilander lit up the darkness of the silent cinema house. He spent six years at the top of the charts before it all ended suddenly…

The Battle of Dybbøl Revisited: The Danish Press Reception of the TV-series 1864

17. nov 2015. PEER REVIEWED. “What on earth just happened in the rotten kingdom of Denmark?” This may well have been Hamlet’s reaction had he witnessed the fierce debate in the Danish media occasioned by the…

The National Pomander: Sørensen og Rasmussen

03. jul 2015. Sørensen og Rasmussen (1940), directed by Emanuel Gregers for the production company Nordisk Film, is a recognized minor classic of Danish film comedy. It is not only witty and well-acted, it…