Asta Nielsen Movies

A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince'...

Drama about Anica's relationship with two highwaymen, Ruggiero and Danilo. After the loss of a child, Anica throws herself into an abyss.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

Bank director Hardner, a cunning businessman who hides his unscrupulousness behind a mask of friendliness, tries to destroy a family.

When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is...

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him...

Melodrama set in Spain.

The landowner Bergmann and his wife hire Annie as a maid, but when the girl gets pregnant by a relative of her master, they dismiss her. Only Johann,...

Zirzi witnesses the murder of Professor Wormser.

Drama about a country girl who becomes a model for an artist with no morals. Disheartened, she return to her home to her old friend Christoph who...

The dancer Navarro has lost her husband and son. With her daughter at her side, she returns to her homeland and comes under suspicion of spying when...

Drama with poor blind Marta who falls in love with sculptor Paul who prefers the high life. As she tries to bring him to the straight and narrow, he...

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large...

A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet,...

Comedy about the lieutenant who marries poor Jesta. As a wealthy neighbor wants his own daughter to wed the officer, Jesta has to disguise herself as...

Ernest Schiller, a wealthy merchant, has the cherished ambition to secure as his son-in-law the Count De Grechy, a member of the nobility. His...

Documentary portrait from 1995 of the Danish star of the silent screen, Asta Nielsen.

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s...

A film crew is shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused...

A short documentary about Asta Nielsen, the first international film star and an icon of modernity, who significantly shaped cinema in its beginnings.