Towards the Light
About Towards the Light
Countess Ysabel treats the people around her as toys. Inga loves her cousin Felix, who wants Ysabel. Baron Sandro Grec, engaged to the countess, resents it. A young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron tells a secret that pulls Ysabel's world apart. She later sees a fire on an island, sails there, and tells a preacher that she has changed and that she loves him and God.
Cast & crew
More about Towards the Light
Holger-Madsen wrote and directed it. Sophus Wangøe photographed it. Nordisk Film produced it. It opened on July 21, 1919. A Danish listing gives July 27, 1919, 55 minutes, and 1,445 meters. Asta Nielsen plays Ysabel, in her last film made in Denmark. Augusta Blad is billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Madsen closed Nielsen's Danish career with the countess who sails to the island.
Look
Sophus Wangøe shot the countess's rooms and the crossing to the island.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Danish title is Mod lyset.
- Lilly Jacobsson plays Inga. Anton de Verdier plays Baron Sandro Grec. Harry Komdrup plays Felix.
- Nicolai Neiiendam plays Professor Manini, Inga's father.
- The DVD music credit is later than the 1919 release.
Scenes
- Felix prefers Ysabel to Inga.
- Ysabel sails toward the fire and speaks to the preacher.
