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Æresgjesten (1919)

Æresgjesten poster
Directed by
Peter Lykke-Seest
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Norway
Runtime
53 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A guest of honor arrives at a gathering and disrupts the social order. Relationships among the attendees shift as secrets emerge.

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What happens

Æresgjesten (The Guest of Honor) is a Norwegian film from 1919 directed by Peter Lykke-Seest. It is considered lost. It was previously assumed that the film had not been shown publicly, but evidence has been found that it was shown in Hamar in 1919. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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