Visionary Picks Drawn from the Same DNA as Spiritisten: Cult Guide

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 A Friend of the People 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

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.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of John Redmond, the Evangelist 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 En kunstners gennembrud perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

Count Croisset proposes to the dancer Odette Blant, on condition she leaves the theater. Odette accepts, assuring herself that she will not miss dancing when she has become a countess. But one day, she receives an offer she can't refuse.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.

Dir: Holger-Madsen

A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. Is the vision of global peace just a naive dream, or will his followers be able to see it through?