Olaf Fønss

Olaf Fønss

Born: October 17, 1882
Died: March 11, 1949
in Aarhus, Denmark

Movies for Olaf Fønss...

Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Title: Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Released: December 3, 1929
Type: Movie
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Ich lebe für Dich
Title: Ich lebe für Dich
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
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Orphan of Lowood
Title: Orphan of Lowood
Released: December 5, 1926
Type: Movie
A film based on novel Jane Eyre.
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Mists of the Past
Title: Mists of the Past
Character: Olaf Malm
Released: November 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The year is 1820 and a young, promising artist, Olaf Malm, has settled in Rome, Europe’s centre of art at the time. He is in love with Sigrid, but class differences make their love impossible. Olaf Malm dies in a tragic accident; he allegedly drowns in the Tiber, but his body is never found. Sigrid gives birth to their lovechild, and twenty years later history repeats itself: their son, Henry, who has never known his real parents, loves a woman who is far above him in social rank. Fate brings him back to Rome, where his parents loved and lost each other many years before. (stumfilm.dk)
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Republikaneren
Title: Republikaneren
Released: July 31, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Hourglass
Title: The Hourglass
Released: September 25, 1922
Type: Movie
The lawyer Magnus Brygge has everything – a good job, two beautiful children and a young, beautiful student who has set her eyes on him. But soon his luck will begin to turn. A sleazy painter with nefarious ulterior motives first turns the head of the professor’s daughter and then of his young bride-to-be, with fatal outcomes and broken relationships as a result. Like sand through an hourglass, everything is about to go down in this bleak but breathtakingly beautiful winter drama with Olaf Fønss in the lead role. (stumfilm.dk)
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The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Bengal
Title: The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Bengal
Character: Herbert Rowland
Released: November 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yogi
Title: The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yogi
Character: Herbert Rowland
Released: October 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
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Ehrenschuld
Title: Ehrenschuld
Released: October 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Returning home after a lengthy time at sea, a man must choose between his childhood sweetheart and another woman who was somehow involved with the untimely death of his brother.
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The Monk's Temptations
Title: The Monk's Temptations
Released: March 7, 1921
Type: Movie
FRAGMENT |The beautiful Margrethe is engaged to the seminarian Bengt Darre, but oh, he’s such a bore. He’s a bit of a dreamer and very pious. She’s cheerful, happy and ready for wild adventures. When he blames her for killing a swan, Margrethe has had enough. She leaves him and finds herself a new man. Bengt becomes a monk and devotes himself to God. However, none of them manage to find happiness. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Journey into the Night
Title: Journey into the Night
Character: Dr. Eigil Börne
Released: January 21, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.
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Scenens Børn
Title: Scenens Børn
Released: August 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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Shall Not Judge
Title: Shall Not Judge
Released: April 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Marcus Bloomer, a district attorney, receives a divine revelation the night before he is to sentence a young man to death. The herald of the revelation takes the form of Bloomer’s former sweetheart Reine, who shows him the greatest mistake of his life: twenty years ago, Bloomer chose his career over Reine, who birthed a fatherless child. In a cruel twist of fate, the child that Bloomer abandoned turns out to be the very same young man he must now sentence to death. (Stumfilm.dk)
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En Aftenscene
Title: En Aftenscene
Released: February 17, 1920
Type: Movie
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Bajadser
Title: Bajadser
Character: Canio
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
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Love Your Neighbor!
Title: Love Your Neighbor!
Character: Strøm - Vicar
Released: December 11, 1918
Type: Movie
There’s an uproar in the small fishing village, as the greedy businessman Consul Warming forces the fishermen to work both day and night. The kind-hearted Pastor Strøm defends the men, but he’s immediately suspended and eventually goes to the dogs. When a violent storm puts both the consul and his daughter – Strøm’s beloved – into danger, the vicar from the sea defies both his position and the forces of nature to save them. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Day of Judgement
Title: Day of Judgement
Character: Baron van Straeten, kaldet "Tigeren"
Released: November 19, 1918
Type: Movie
Michael von Straeten is an unscrupulous financier whose harshness and cynicism have earned him the nickname ‘The Tiger’. He destroys his enemies with no mercy and no regrets, watching calmly when his victims come close to starving to death. Will von Straeten see the error of his ways when he is brought face to face with all the evil deeds of his life? Or is it too late for von Straeten to make amends for the lives he has ruined, escaping the ultimate punishment on Judgement Day? (stumfilm.dk)
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A Man's Sacrifice
Title: A Man's Sacrifice
Released: July 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Colleagues Maurice and Charles are connected through a close friendship, as Maurice is engaged to Charles’ daughter Vera. Everything seems blissful, but Charles is hiding a terrible secret that he had gambled on the stock market and covered his loss by drawing up bills to the tune of hundreds of thousands in his son-in-law’s name. When Maurice realises what happened, he chooses to spare Vera from finding out the truth and save her father. While Vera unsuspectingly travels to Europe to visit her aunt, he pleads guilty and is imprisoned in the Erie Country Penitentiary. (Stumfilm.dk)
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Ingo Theoso
Released: April 21, 1918
Type: Movie
A girl is forced to marry a irresponsible man she does not love to save her fathers reputation. At the same time she falls for a religious preacher to the poor.
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Lægen
Title: Lægen
Character: Dr. Harold Lister
Released: March 6, 1918
Type: Movie
The plague breaks out and Dr. Harold Lister tries to find a cure and heal the sick.
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The End of the Homunculus
Title: The End of the Homunculus
Character: Homunculus
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.
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The Destruction of Mankind
Title: The Destruction of Mankind
Character: Homunculus
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
For a long time the homunculus had to hide from his pursuers. But now he mingles with humanity again and sows discord, strife and murder. One day, when he meets an orphaned girl, he takes her to the shepherd Rudolf's parents. His goal is to pair the two together in order to breed a new human race from them. To this end, he kidnaps her to a deserted island. But the plan fails because Rudolf tries to kill the homunculus after learning his true identity. In revenge, the homunculus destroys the entire island, including the young couple. His hitherto loyal companion Edgar Rodin is so horrified by this deed that he renounces the homunculus and threatens him with death.
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The Revenge of the Homunculus
Title: The Revenge of the Homunculus
Character: Homunculus
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Richard Ortmann the artificial man (Homunculus) has become the head of the corporation that represents the capital and power of the country, but he has stopped believing in human love. All the more clear is his goal now: the annihilation of mankind.
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The Love Tragedy of the Homunculus
Title: The Love Tragedy of the Homunculus
Character: Homunculus
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
The homunculus and his companion Edgar Rodin make an invention that would allow the hateful homunculus to destroy the world. But first he wants to find out about love. When he observes how young Anna is rejected by her parents, he takes care of her and asks her parents for forgiveness - without success. He brings her to her seducer, who also rejects the girl. The homunculus then takes revenge by ruining the man financially and throwing Anna at his feet. But she still loves the villain and asks Homunculus for mercy. The homunculus cannot understand this feeling of love - he wants to try it out on himself. He puts a young woman who loves him to the hardest test, but she will do anything for him, sacrificing her fiancé and her parents. Only when he reveals his artificial nature to her, she leaves him. This experience confirms the homunculus in his intention to destroy mankind.
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The Mysterious Book
Title: The Mysterious Book
Character: Homunculus
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
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Homunculus
Title: Homunculus
Character: Homunculus
Released: August 18, 1916
Type: Movie
A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.
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The Artificial Man
Title: The Artificial Man
Character: Homunculus
Released: August 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstrous but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake.
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The New Explosive
Title: The New Explosive
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
FRAGMENT | The young, ambitious chemist Felix Saltau works at an explosives factory. Here he experiments with a new and particularly powerful explosive – an invention that will make him rich and, not least, worthy of marrying the boss’s daughter, Ilse. Unfortunately, the planned test fails, and Saltau is mocked by all the spectators there. Eager to regain his reputation, Saltau foolhardily tries again, but the charge explodes in his hands, blinding him. No longer able to work, he is fired. Yet in a happy turn of events, Saltau is joined by Ilse, who turns her back on her childhood home in favour of an uncertain future with Saltau. (Stumfilm.dk)
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The End of the World
Title: The End of the World
Character: Frank Stoll, mine owner and stock market speculator
Released: April 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father's will, she elopes with the unscrupulous Stoll. News of a meteor approaching the earth causes panic and Stoll exploits the situation to make a killing on the stock market; Collaborating with the press to quell the news of the meteor eases public tensions and guarantees him a fortune. He plans to survive in a secret underground tunnel, with Dina and his wealthy pals in tow. But things don't go as planned.
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En Død i Skønhed
Title: En Død i Skønhed
Released: March 19, 1915
Type: Movie
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A Woman’s Way
Title: A Woman’s Way
Released: September 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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Lay Down Your Arms!
Title: Lay Down Your Arms!
Character: Fr. von Tilling, Marthas anden mand
Released: August 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Martha, a war widow, finds a new zest for life when she meets the noble Captain von Tilling. They marry, but before long he, too, is called to war. In his absence, Martha falls into a depression and is hospitalised. Sick with longing and learning that her banking firm has gone belly-up, she leaves the hospital and takes a train to the battlefield to find her husband. (stumfilm.dk)
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A Deal with the Devil
Title: A Deal with the Devil
Character: Walter Fahrich - Student
Released: May 20, 1914
Type: Movie
A Danish film about Olaf Fønss selling his soul to the devil.
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Aquitted
Title: Aquitted
Character: Dommer
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
The count makes his new wife jealous when he helps a female rider who makes obvious advances at him. Lydia has barely forgiven her husband before things go wrong again. During a horse race, the count has a terrible accident that leaves him paralysed. Lydia must be strong and make up her mind: How far is she willing to go to help her beloved? (Stumfilm.dk)
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Atlantis
Title: Atlantis
Character: Dr. Friedrich von Kammacher
Released: December 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Overwhelmed by personal and professional problems, biologist Friedrich von Kammacher decides to travel abroad in order to regain the joy of living. During his adventurous journey he will meet two very different women, one of whom will be the key to his fate.
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A Paradise Lost
Title: A Paradise Lost
Released: October 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Feeling neglected by her busy husband, Muriel meets the nobleman Emile le Blanc and falls for him head over heels. But he is not what he claims to be. (stumfilm.dk)
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Released: June 9, 1913
Type: Movie
The young artist Simon Durand happens to find himself in an idyllic village. Here he finds board and lodging with Marietta, who lives alone with her sick mother, and soon Durand has won the heart of his young hostess. Their happy state is threatened by the wealthy farmer Jerome, who has been courting Marietta in vain for a long time and is not about to abandon his hopes of eventually marrying her. He tattles on the couple to Marietta’s mother, who immediately suffers a heart attack and dies at the mere thought of a poor painter as her son-in-law. When Durand is simultaneously called away to the big city, Marietta’s mind is greatly clouded. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Konfetti
Title: Konfetti
Released: September 9, 1912
Type: Movie
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Zigeunerorkestret
Title: Zigeunerorkestret
Released: August 28, 1912
Type: Movie