The Great Moment

Urban Gad, 1911, 38 min
FRAGMENT | When the maid Annie falls pregnant by a nephew of the owner of the estate where she works, she’s sent away. The child is given up for adoption and grows up on the estate. One day, when Annie wants her child back, her only friend, Johann, helps her with the abduction. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, and a tragic accident seals Annie’s fate.

The role of Annie is played by Asta Nielsen, and the film was one of the first she made together with Urban Gad in Germany.

Unfortunately, the first part of the film is lost. The fragment begins shortly before Annie gives her child to the estate owner's widow.

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