Hidden Genre Gems for Fans of Den hvide djævel: Cult Guide

Dir: Holger-Madsen

Family father Poul Berg is tempted by a dubious investment offer and retaliates so deeply that he takes his own life. His widow Ketty struggles to keep the family afloat.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Den Æreløse perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

Mrs. Walken is in deep grief after her husbands sudden death. In the paper she reads about a medium Dr. Kinley. Widow Walken decides to have a seance, hoping she will make contact with her dead husband.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Spiritisten perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The social storm after World War I divides the people. In the eye of the storm are three brothers fighting for the lower classes, each in his own way.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

An upperclass war widow marries again. The new husband is also an officer, and soon he has to go to the next war. At the outbreak, she's the only one who does not cheer about it. And the terrors of war soon bring almost all of her friends and relatives, among them generals and high government officials to the same conclusion: War does not pay.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Friend of the People perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Down with Weapons perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young architect is restoring a castle but falls in love with the baron's daughter, and when the baron discovers the affair, they have to flee together to make their dream of a marriage come true.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

After losing his parents, who died from grief over their son's unjust sentence to jail, John Redmond obtains his release and devotes his life to the uplift and betterment of mankind. After preaching to a crowd one day he is accused of having served a term in jail himself. The leader of a gang and his followers are planning an act of burglary in a saloon. John Redmond happens into the same place, but he is mocked and leaves. One of the gangsters decides to lead an honest life and appeals to John for moral aid. The lay-preacher tells him his story: How in a quarrel one evening his sweetheart was killed by the bullet of a rival suitor, which was meant for him, and for which he was sentenced to jail. Through the intervention of this prison chaplain, however, the case was retried, his innocence was proven and he was set free. His first way was to his ill mother who, shortly after his return, died in his arms. Nellie, the reformed gangster's sweetheart, rejoices over his reformation, and the lay-preacher continues his life's vocation.