The Black Dream

Title The Black Dream
Release date
1911
Director
Urban Gad
Type
Noir et blanc
Format
Genre
Runtime
53
Importance du cirque
Sypnosis

Rich jeweler Hirsch and Count von Waldberg are both wooing Stella, who opts for the latter. Hirsch turns up uninvited at a party, saying he wants to give Stella a piece of jewelry, but he gets rejected. He then challenges the count to a card duel and wins. To help Waldberg who got into a huge debt, Stella goes at Hirsch’s house to steal a precious necklace from him, but Hirsch sees the theft in a mirror and blackmails her. A story of jealousy between two men who eventually both lose Stella, killed by accident.

Cast

Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander, Gunnar Helsengreen

Production company
Fotorama
Country
Thematic
Notes
Scénario: Urban Gad, Gebhard Schätzler-Perasini