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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1585

Under forvandlingens lov

191126 minNorway

Synopsis

Camillo and Francisca discover that their spouses are having an affair. Their strange response is to confine the unfaithful pair in separate cages, hoping to exhaust the attraction. The jealousy drama also pauses for variety performances.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 26:47
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Halfdan Nobel Roede · Public domain

Cast

Olaf Hanson

Ingeborg Hauge

Birger Widt

Signe Danning

Hans Ingi Hedemark

Bertha Ræstad

DirectorsHalfdan Nobel Roede

Historical context

Halfdan Nobel Roede's production is the oldest known surviving Norwegian film. Its variety-show scenes preserve performances by artists including Botten Soot and Bertha Ræstad.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Signe Danning — Fotograf: Jacobsen (Bergen, Norway).; Oslo Museum : accession number TM.T01890 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hans Ingi Hedemark — Unknown author Unknown author; Oslo Museum: image no. TM.T02517a (Teaterhistorisk samling), via oslobilder.no. · CC BY-SA 3.0

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