Atlantis (1913)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

August Blom

Writers:

Axel Garde (writer)
Gerhart Hauptmann (novel)

Release Date:

20 December 1913 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

New York | Lifeboat | Ship | Statue Of Liberty | Ocean

Cast

Olaf Fønss	...	Dr. Friedrich Kammacher
Ida Orlov	...	Ingigerd Hahlstroem, artistic dancer
Ebba Thomsen	...	Eva Burns
Carl Lauritzen	...	Dr. Schmidt
Frederik Jacobsen	...	Dr. Georg Rasmussen
Charles Unthan	...	Arthur Stoss, armless man
Torben Meyer	...	Willy Snyders, artist
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cajus Bruun	...	Friedrich's father
Michael Curtiz	...	Hans Fuellenberg, Friedrich's college pal (as Mihály Kertész)
Marie Dinesen	...	Friedrich's mother
Lily Frederiksen
Thomas P. Hejle	...	Clerk
Alma Hinding	...	Fugitive
Musse Kornbech	...	Young Canadian lady
Svend Kornbech	...	Ship's captain
Bertel Krause	...	Artist's agent
Emilie Otterdahl	...	Lady at fancy dress ball
Carl Schenstrøm
Albrecht Schmidt	...	Eva's father
Christian Schrøder	...	Ingigerd's father
Franz Skondrup	...	Stoss's waiter-helper
Alfred Stigaard	...	Ship's 1st Mate Wilhelm

Runtime:

121 min | 116 min (20 fps)

Country:

Denmark

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Nordisk Film

Movie Connections:

Edited into Eventyret om dansk film 2: Kunsten og pengene - 1909-1913 (1996) (V)

One of the supposed masterpieces of the Danish silent screen.

Denmark's Atlantis (1913), another ship-sinking story influenced by the Titanic tale and filmed off the coast of New Zealand, was one of the first full-length films ever made - it had a 1 hour, 53 minute running time. This version of the story from director August Blom appeared to sink a full-scale boat for realism. It was a very realistic and naturalistic-looking Titanic film with a well-staged action scene of the ship's sinking. The story is rather simple, despondent over his institutionalized wife, a doctor endeavors to cope by traveling through Europe and eventually to New York, surviving an ocean liner sinking on the way. The film was hailed as an impressive achievement for the cinema of 1913, especially for the sinking liner sequence that was influenced by the Titanic disaster. It was also one of the most popular films of the silent decades, and a worldwide smash hit.