The Essential Watchlist that Capture the Essence of Der fremde Voge...

Dir: Urban Gad

Jesta is engaged to marry uncle Peter. When a squadron of hussars have to spend the night at their farm, Peter demands that Jesta will dress as a 12 year old. However, four hussars fancies her, before Peter marries her.

Dir: Urban Gad

Two men of high rank are both wooing the beautiful and famous equestrian acrobat Stella. While Stella ignores the jeweler Hirsch, she accepts Count von Waldberg's offer to follow her home, where she falls in his arms. At her party some days later Hirsch turns up uninvited. He says he wants to give Stella a piece of jewelry, but she repulses his advances. When Waldberg sees this he knocks Hirsch down. Hirsch challenges him to a duel by cards. Waldberg loses all his money, and in the end also has to sign a promissory note on 85.000, which should be paid within 24 hours. To help Waldberg solve his debt Stella goes to Hirsch to receive the brooch he has promised her. While he turns away, she steals a precious necklace from him, but he happens to see the theft in a mirror. He tails her to a park, where he sees Stella giving the necklace to Waldberg. Hirsch tells Stella to come to him at midnight, if she wants him to be silent about the theft. When Waldberg finds out that Stella is going to Hirsch in the night, he becomes jealous and goes there as well. By mistake he happens to shoot Stella, who reveals her sacrifice for him before she dies.

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

Dir: Urban Gad

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Urban Gad

Christian Wahnschaffe, the spoiled son of an industrialist, meets Iwan Becker, a leader in the Russian Nihilist movement. Impressed by Becker's concern for society's weak and poor, Christian develops sympathies for the movement's ideals.

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

Dir: Urban Gad

Drama. When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewelry from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda solves the crime singlehandedly and the two are reunited.

Dir: Urban Gad

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.

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

Dir: Urban Gad

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Urban Gad

Kind-hearted Thekla helps her frivolous brother and hides him on a remote farm.

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

Dir: Urban Gad

The noble family de la Porte lives at castle Medan. After the lost heir August returns unexpectedly, countess Herm, mother-in-law of younger brother Johann, fears for the inheritance of her daughter.

Dir: Urban Gad

A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.