Movies: Minerva Film

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year peri...

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A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding....

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. ...

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous....

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentence...

Depicting minutes before and after a child is killed by a car....

A 19-year-old boy, after his mother's death, starts a relationship with his father's mistress, although he is engaged. The relationship continues after the woman has become his stepmother....

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well....

Documentary film about the final construction and inauguration of the Trans-Iranian Railway Company by the Battle of Saxony - a 1400 km stretch between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The stretch through rugged and difficult-to-access terrain i...

A tribute to the poet Christian Winther (1796-1876). Nature poetry, national romance and the poet's life story....

The film gives a picture of the busy life that moves throughout the day in the Radio House, and it shows us the people behind the voices as well as the technical means needed to complete the broadcasts. Reportage and department manager Aksel Dahlerup...

Compilation film about Denmark's role in the Second World War....

Katja aged 16 and Cathrine aged 8 both have a unique relationship to music, to nature and to sensation in general. Katja and Cathrine are blind, but the girls have developed their other senses and use them much more keenly than most people around the...

A studio recording by the poet Johannes Jørgensen, who reads the poems "Fagerø" and "Behind all the blue mountains". At the request of J. Øhlenschlæger Johansen....

"Being a housewife is a profession like any other," emphasizes the speaker in this film, which is about how to keep a house in the 1940s. The newlywed Lene is unfortunately completely hopeless about it. She burns the food on, makes crooked press fold...

A film that shows that international aid work can give Europe's tuberculosis children a chance if this aid work is simply supported in their home country. Sent out on the occasion of the great UN collection....

A walk through Dyrehaven near Copenhagen, full of lyrical and humorous details, which give an impression of typical Danish summer life and of Danish landscapes. The film is based on Knud Åge Riisager's piece "Summer Rhapsody" played by the Radio Orch...

An appeal to support the UN collection to fight tuberculosis in war-torn Europe. Every seven seconds, a person dies of tuberculosis worldwide. The film is available in a longer version with an animated sequence....

The film depicts the Danish police's guard service at Amalienborg after 29 August 1943 and the conditions under which the corps works until the liberation and 10 June 1945, when the bodyguard again took over the guard. A number of footage depicts the...