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Operabranden (1912)

Operabranden poster
Directed by
August Blom
Genre
silent film
Country
Denmark
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Danish silent drama from 1912 set against a backdrop of a theater fire. The story follows characters who are drawn together by family secrets and a crisis.

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What happens

Operabranden er en dansk stum dramafilm fra 1912 produceret af Nordisk Films Kompagni og instrueret af August Blom efter manuskript af Carl Arctander. I filmens hovedroller er Agnete Blom og Valdemar Psilander. I en mindre rolle spiller en ung Osvald Helmuth i sin filmdebut. Filmen havde dansk premiere den 26. december 1912 i Panoptikon Teatret og blev i tysktalende lande distribueret som Grossmutters Wiegenlied, i engelsktalende lande som In The Hour Of Need og i fransktalende lande som La Berceuse de Grand'Mére. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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