FRAGMENT | Lejla, a frivolous dressage rider, rides around with suitors and dances with death. Count Claes turns a deaf ear to all the warnings about Lejla’s behaviour. Claes only has eyes for Lejla’s beauty, but is blind to her rejections. Only when Claes offers to settle her debt does she become interested in marriage. Has Claus actually married the cat in the bag?
The film has Danish intertitles. The preserved fragment lacks the ending. Read the full plot in the cinema programme.
‘Lejla’ is produced by Dania Biofilm Kompagni, which the publisher Gyldendal used to be a co-owner of. Gyldendal originally wanted to start a literary film company, but instead teamed up with Dania and founded Dania Biofilm Kompagni in 1913. However, the company’s films were never successful. Foreign distributors complained about the films’ technical flaws and poor quality, and in 1918 the company was dissolved. The fragment from ‘Lejla’ is one of the only preserved materials from Dania Biofilm Kompagni.
The film has Danish intertitles. The preserved fragment lacks the ending. Read the full plot in the cinema programme.
‘Lejla’ is produced by Dania Biofilm Kompagni, which the publisher Gyldendal used to be a co-owner of. Gyldendal originally wanted to start a literary film company, but instead teamed up with Dania and founded Dania Biofilm Kompagni in 1913. However, the company’s films were never successful. Foreign distributors complained about the films’ technical flaws and poor quality, and in 1918 the company was dissolved. The fragment from ‘Lejla’ is one of the only preserved materials from Dania Biofilm Kompagni.
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