Asta Nielsen Movies

Comedy about the courting couple Sabine and Lehman. Her roving eye catches a lieutenant, and when he finds out about her winning lottery ticket, he...

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men.

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...

Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden...

A doppelganger comedy made at the height of Asta Nielsen's fame in which she plays dual roles. This film is considered lost.

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

Silent adaptation of the famous play by Henrik Ibsen. This film is believed to be lost.

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...

A conversation with Poul Reumert recorded in the spring of 1968, Asta Nielsen is interviewed by actor Axel Strøbye in his home in Copenhagen ....

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...

Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she...

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

In this film, Nielsen plays the role of a mannequin, using her body as a clotheshorse. She makes a striking entrance on a flight of stairs, which...

Documentary feature about film diva Asta Nielsen based in part on previously unseen material from private archives of Frede Smith.

When architect Ernstein falls for secretary Paula, his wife makes sure, that she is fired and evicted from her apartment. When she finds herself...

The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all his clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody...

Jesta’s mischievous and playful manner is driving her father and his new lady friend mad. Finally they have had enough, and Jesta is sent away...

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

The idealistic journalist Sonja Waler is making every effort to provide financial assistance for the young doctor Albert Holm’s new invention,...