The Hourglass (1922)
- Original title
- Timeglasset
- Directed by
- Fritz Magnussen
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- Denmark
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A successful lawyer with a good job and family faces ruin when a slimy painter seduces both his daughter and his fiancee. The story is a winter drama that shows his life slipping away like sand in an hourglass.
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