Christmas at an old rectory in the countryside – it's Christmas! And the three student brothers, "Gamle", "Corpus Juris" and Nicolai, are delighted to receive an invitation to spend Christmas with the priest in Nøddebo. The fact that there are also a couple of young daughters in the rectory...
We are in New York. A young Danish girl has a conversation with the Danish-American Mr. Lang. It is understood that she loves his son and that he has sent the young man to London because he thinks they are both too young. Furthermore, it is clear from the conversation that he is about to file for...
Laurits lives with his granddaughter Adda on a small farm. He has always had difficulty making ends meet, and the bailiff often has to visit Lauritz to try to collect the outstanding taxes. The friendly parish bailiff and dairy manager Rasmus wants to help Lauritz, but he won't hear of it. Rasmus...
Jens and Trille Woller have only been married for six months, and so far they live happily together in their cozy artist's dormitory, where Jens works with a brush and palette in front of his easel, while Trille sits behind her typewriter and writes short stories for the weekly magazines. But...
Sylvia Grøn is fired as a teacher. Instead, she teams up with her great admirer, the actor Herman Sander. Sylvia Grøn invests her savings in his traveling theater, but the theater is doing poorly. The image of Herman Sander also fades as time goes by. Sylvia's old student, Eva Kristoffersen,...
The young siblings at the Hejrenæs estate, Vibeke and Hans-Henrik, have always gotten along well, so Hans-Henrik decides to celebrate his sister's 21st birthday with a big party at the estate. During the party, the siblings' childhood friend, Ulla, provokes an engagement with Hans-Henrik, and at...
Life at the boarding school is all fun and games for the two friends, Bess and Dott. However, one day Dott receives an ominous letter from her solicitor: Her wealth has dwindled, and she must leave the school! Hard times set upon the young woman who gradually loses everything. However, Bess is not...
In 1801, the composer Weyse's cousin, the cheerful Henriette Frisch, advised her cousin to take in some student boarders in the house, so that he would not have to provide so much musical information, but could have more time to compose. The result, however, was that Weyse had to take on even more...
Three simple-minded fisherman brothers enjoy life. They get help from the young girl Sus, who manages the house and helps on the fishing boat. When the brothers get a good offer to borrow money for a hotel, they immediately take it. However, there is the shady contractor Gravenkop from whom they...
Sigurd, the son of a hard-hearted, feared and hated consul, cannot have the girl he loves - because her mother is a Lapp girl - so he goes as a stowaway on "Vesle Kari" to the west ice of Greenland. Here the ship sinks, and only Sigurd and another young man, Lorens, make it ashore. The two...
A past lover ignites a fiery gambling addiction within the reckless Prince Spinarosa. The old lover, Asta Leonhard, ensures that the prince acquires a royal gambling debt. Princess Spinarosa is a famous dancer in her own right and graciously offers her husband a piece of jewellery to cover his...
The count makes his new wife jealous when he helps a female rider who makes obvious advances at him. Lydia has barely forgiven her husband before things go wrong again. During a horse race, the count has a terrible accident that leaves him paralysed. Lydia must be strong and make up her mind: How...
Although Danish-American George Steffenson comes from poor circumstances, he has built a large financial empire, where the money rolls in. But the busy life is wearing on George, and when no medicine helps, he goes to Denmark on vacation, where no one knows him and he may find the true values...
The young mechanic Borge Rasmussen works in Salling Harbour and lives with the slightly older Marinus Frederiksen, who chairs the city's port workers. Marinus sees in Borge, who has lost his parents, his only friend and is easily influenced by his extremist views.
