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Anna, a young girl from a poor but honest household, is offered an attractive position as a lady’s companion in London. Her childhood friend is worried, but she goes anyway. To Anna’s horror, the “distinguished house” turns out to be a brothel and her first customer soon awaits her. She manages to smuggle a letter for her parents out of the country, but what she doesn’t know is that her childhood friend Georg is already on his way to save her. Will Anna ever escape the white slave trade?Read More »
1910s
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August Blom – Den hvide slavehandel AKA The White Slave Trade (1910)
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Gustav Trautschold – Ilse und ihre drei Freier AKA Ilse and Her Three Suitors (1913)
1911-1920ComedyGermanyGustav TrautscholdSilentIlse/Elza (Alice Hechy) is into a local painter but her father wants her to marry Count van Trutwitz or some American.
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Mauritz Stiller – Gränsfolken AKA Brother Against Brother (1913)
Mauritz Stiller1911-1920DramaScandinavian Silent CinemaSwedenWarTwo brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel “La Débâcle” by Émile Zola.Read More »
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Scott Sidney – Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
1911-1920AdventureScott SidneySilentUSAReared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr. Porter organizes a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?Read More »
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Giovanni Pastrone – Il fuoco (la favilla – la vampa – la cenere) AKA The Fire (1916)
1911-1920ArthouseGiovanni PastroneItalySilentQuote:
A poor painter, never artistically recognized, meets on the riverside a wealthy young lady. They are both attracted to each other and she invites him to come over to her castle. There they begin an illegal affair (the woman is married to an old grand duke who is absent at that moment). Even when she warns him that their love will be as a big fire, that will be extinguished too quickly, the painter, blinded by passion, accepts. He paints a daring and somewhat manneristic portrait of the woman and sends it to town. At the moment when they read in the newspaper that due to the portrait the painter is finally recognized and praised, the duchess receives a message her husband is returning. Secretly she puts a sleeping powder in the painter’s wine. When he awakes, she is gone and has left him only the money for the painting, that she clearly has bought. Desperately he leaves the castle and wanders around, in search for his beloved. But when he finally encounters her, in company of her husband, she pretends not to know him.Read More » -
D.W. Griffith – Judith of Bethulia (1914)
1911-1920D.W. GriffithEpicSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSAQuote:
Judith of Bethulia was a 1914 film and starred Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and was produced and directed by D. W. Griffith in 1913. This was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released. Shortly after its completion and a disagreement Griffith had with Biograph executives on making more future feature-length films, Griffith left Biograph, and took the entire stock company with him. Biograph delayed the picture’s release until 1914, after Griffith’s departure, so that it would not have to pay him in a profit-sharing agreement they had.Read More » -
Louis Feuillade – Le pain quotidien AKA Our Daily Bread (1910)
1901-1910DramaFranceLouis FeuilladeSilentA dour ten minutes during which a young woman takes the job a family man. Mostly of interest as a “glimpse of views on women’s emancipation and employment at a time when they were invading the office world as stenographers and typists” (Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi).Read More »
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Louis Feuillade – La maison des lions AKA House of Lions (1912)
1911-1920DramaFranceLouis FeuilladeSilentAfter he is fired, a real stinker of a servant lets loose his ex-employer’s lions.
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J. Searle Dawley – A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers (1911)
1911-1920DramaJ. Searle DawleySilentUSAEye Filmmuseum wrote:
A short love story set in prehistoric times. A woman with two suitors shoots the one she doesn’t love with her bow and arrow, hitting him in the heart.Read More »