Synopsis:
‘Sabotage of a Nazi factory is carried out by the husband of the lover of a resistance leader.’
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Johan Jacobsen
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Johan Jacobsen – Den usynlige hær AKA The Invisible Army (1945)
1941-1950DenmarkDramaJohan JacobsenWar -
Johan Jacobsen – Soldaten og Jenny AKA Jenny and the Soldier (1947)
1941-1950DenmarkDramaJohan JacobsenRomanceA good natured soldier with a killer right hand, falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past.Read More »
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Johan Jacobsen – En fremmed banker på AKA A Stranger Knocks (1959)
1951-1960Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDenmarkDramaJohan JacobsenThrillerAmos Vogel in Film as a Subversive Art:
A censorship landmark case: the entire plot pivots on an act of intercourse, during which the woman accidentally discovers the vital clue to the film’s mystery. The complete absence of nudity and total relevance of the scene to the plot posed an impossible problem for the American censors, and led, upon appeals against its prohibition, to the abolition by the Supreme Court of the entire system of American state censorship in 1967. This development contributed significantly to the later era of sexual permissiveness in the American cinema.Read More »