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The End of the World

191677 minDenmark
AdventureScience fictionDrama

Synopsis

The approach of a comet raises the prospect of a catastrophe that wealth and social position cannot prevent. As the danger becomes real, fear spreads through a society already divided by private desires and material interests. Fire, destruction and unrest turn an astronomical event into a struggle over how people behave when their familiar world appears to be ending.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Danish.
This copy runs
77:17
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Danish. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · August Blom · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsAugust Blom

Behind the scenes

Blom's Danish production uses smoke and showers of sparks to create its disaster scenes. Released during the First World War, it also followed the public anxiety surrounding the passage of Halley's Comet in 1910.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Olaf Fønss — Alexander Binder; https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/2673890850/ This image is a movie star postcard published by Ross Verlag in Berlin . This is image nr. 404/2 from their series. It was published ca. 1919–1924. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. In particular, Ross images are in the public domain in Germany only if it can be shown that the photographer (usually mentioned on the image itself) has died more than 70 years ago. Ross images that are in the public domain in Germany may still be copyrighted in the United States if they were first published later than 1930 and were still copyrighted in Germany on January 1, 1996 (i.e. if the photographer died in 1926 or later). · Public domain
  • Carl Lauritzen — Nordisk Films Kompagni; https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/mens-pesten-raser · Public domain
  • Ebba Thomsen — Peter Elfelt; http://www5.kb.dk/images/billed/2010/okt/billeder/object1910407/da/ · CC BY 4.0

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