The Power of Love
About The Power of Love
Nina informs on the wanted man Carl Weldon so the reward can pay for her mother's care. The mother dies before Nina gets back. In prison, Weldon tells his son Victor, a doctor, that the murder conviction is wrong. Victor cannot prove it. Years later Nina is hired as a nurse at Victor's children's hospital. They fall in love, and she cannot tell him she sent his father to jail. New evidence in the murder case gives her a way to free Carl.
Cast & crew
More about The Power of Love
A. W. Sandberg wrote and directed the Nordisk melodrama, negative 1727. Louis Larsen photographed it. The Danish premiere was 25 August 1919 at the Panoptikon. The print is 1,778 meters, timed at 92 minutes.
Themes
Making
Sandberg was working inside Nordisk when he made it. The hospital job is how the script puts Nina back in Victor's life, years after the reward money.
Look
Louis Larsen photographed the 1,778-meter silent negative.
Preservation
The Danish Film Institute holds the 92-minute Nordisk print. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Danish title is Kærlighedens Almagt. Export titles include Sealed Lips and L'amour tout-puissant.
- Clara Pontoppidan plays Nina and is billed as Clara Wieth. Carlo Wieth plays Victor.
- Peter Fjelstrup is Carl Weldon. Aage Hertel is Baron Liegundt. Peter Malberg is the baron's nephew Pedro. Jacoba Jessen is Jeanne.
- Alfi Zangenberg and Mathilde Felumb Friis are also on the Nordisk cast list.
Scenes
- Nina comes home with the reward and finds her mother already dead.
- Victor hears in the prison that the murder verdict is wrong.
- Nina takes a nurse's post at the children's hospital Victor runs.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Kærlighedens Almagt (1919).webm)
- Danish Film Institute
