The sibling Beate (17) and Jens (12) have lost their parent in a train accident, and their remote family tries to get rid of the children to get hold of the land and properties..
Peter Lykke-Seest
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To witness Peter Lykke-Seest’s 1917 silent feature, De forældreløse (The Orphans), is to step into a bygone era of Norwegian cinema where the boundaries between social realism and gothic melodrama were porous and often indistinguishable. In the nascent years of the 20th century, cinema was grappling with its own identi...
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Peter Lykke-Seest
Peter Lykke-Seest
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"To witness Peter Lykke-Seest’s 1917 silent feature, De forældreløse (The Orphans), is to step into a bygone era of Norwegian cinema where the boundaries between social realism and gothic melodrama were porous and often indistinguishable. In the nascent years of the 20th century, cinema was grappling with its own identity, oscillating between the theatrical and the purely visual. Lykke-Seest, a writer of considerable narrative ambition, crafted a story that feels remarkably contemporary in its cy..."
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