- [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her a…
- This film comes from the Schloss Archive of His Highness, Herr Graf Ferdinand von Galitzien:I start off the second round of silent rarities from the Count's archive with the reconstructed version of Mauritz Stiller's 1916 silent "Balettprimadonnan". The film was thought to be lost until extended fragments wer…
- At Walpurgis Night people gather around bonfires and in restaurants to celebrate the coming of spring. Johan Borg has booked a table for two, hoping to pour new spirit into his dying marriage. He is longing for a family life, with children of his own, but his wife Clary opposes it. In fact, she has planned to undergo a…