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.
Production
Massive ocean liner sets that put most modern disasters to shame.
Acting
Olaf Fønss's full-body existential despair—silent film acting at its most extra.
Direction
August Blom's cross-cutting between romance and looming catastrophe.
Director
August Blom
Olaf Fønss
Dr. Friedrich von Kammacher
Frederik Jacobsen
Dr. Rasmussen
Carl Lauritzen
Dr. Peter Schmidt
Ida Orloff
Ingigerd Hahlstrøm – Dancer
Ebba Thomsen
Eva Burns – Sculptor
Alma Hinding
Russian Refugee
Torben Meyer
Willy Snyders
Cajus Bruun
Friedrich's Father
Christian Schrøder
Ingigerd's Father
Svend Kornbeck
Captain
Svend Bille
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released April 1913, mere months before the Titanic disaster made ocean liner panic uncomfortably real.
Based on Gerhart Hauptmann's novel, this was Denmark's answer to Italian epic spectacle—Nordic prestige cinema flexing hard.
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