The Global Archive For Devotees of Tatjana: Cult Guide

Dir: Edgar Jones

A mail-order bride arrives at a Maine lumber camp but doesn't like her prospective husband.

Dir: Edward LeSaint

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

When famous opera singer Elinore Duane undergoes an operation on her throat, she has a series of ether-induced visions. In one, she is transported to ancient Rome where she appears as a much-admired woman in love with Paul, a young heretic, and at odds with Lutor, the high priest. To save her love, she poisons Lutor with her ring. After several other visions which involve variations on this love triangle, Elinore awakens to discover that Lutor is actually her doctor, Sascha Jaccard, and that Paul is the son of a friend who has come to visit the recovering prima donna.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

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

The rich banker Collin has lost one of his favorite daughters. He is unrestrained by grief. His other daughter is happily engaged and can not disperse the father's darkness. He drops deeper and deeper.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

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

Kuno Falkenberg, a handsome young naval lieutenant, is in love with his cousin Elly, who also happens to be the daughter of the colonel. Elly has met a swarthy and wealthy maharajah, who proposes marriage to her in a rowboat. She eagerly accepts. When Kuno finds the empty rowboat, he assumes that Elly has drowned - little suspecting that she has eloped to the Orient, or wherever wealthy maharajahs live.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

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

Manufacturer Berner lives seemingly happy with his daughter Agnes. But Berner's company is close to bankruptcy. Reluctantly, he informs Agnes of the financial situation. She comes up with a plan, involving the housemaid Grethe.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Dinesen

Dr. Hatton and Dr. Felix, two young physicians, are working to produce a serum for the cure of cancer. Dr. Felix secretly envies Dr. Hatton's personality and social conquests, while the latter is jealous of the other's more advanced work. Hatton conceives a plan to divert his colleague's mind from his work by getting him interested in society and a charming orphan, Margaret. Lieutenant Vincent, Margaret's brother and guardian, is soon transferred to another city and Margaret is left alone with an old aunt. Dr. Hatton maneuvers so that Felix spends most of his time with Margaret, while he diligently applies himself to his work. Marguerite's infatuation for Felix results disastrously, and Dudley, Lieutenant's friend, goes to inform him of the improper relations between his sister and the physician. Vincent obtains leave of absence and sets out to defend his sister's honor. Meanwhile Margaret has written Felix about her condition, to which he replies with a check. This she indignantly returns to him. Upon his return Lieutenant Vincent challenges Dr. Felix to a duel, in which the former is fatally wounded. Felix is sent to prison for six months, and the night of his release Dr. Hatton, as Mephistopheles, takes him to a mask ball. In the midst of revelry Dr. Felix thinks how cruelly he has treated Margaret, and he goes to the hospital in search of her, where he learns that she and her child both have died. Overwhelmed by sorrow he returns to his rooms, where he reads of Dr. Hatton's discovery of the cancer cure. Too late he realizes that Dr. Hatton's duplicity has ruined his career. As life no longer appeals to him he takes poison and his dying eyes behold a vision of Mephistopheles with the face of Dr. Hatton, and seems to hear his mocking words: "I have superseded you. Your folly achieved my triumph."