August Blom
August Blom (born December 26, 1869 in Copenhagen , † January 10, 1947 there ) was a Danish film director .
Life
Blom began working as an actor in 1893. From 1907 to 1910 he was employed at the “Folketeatret” in Copenhagen. When he made his actor debut in 1909 with the Nordisk film company , it was already one of the leading production companies in Europe. He directed his first direction in 1910. In the same year a film adaptation of Hamlet was made under his direction with Alwin Neuss in the title role. Blom made The White Slave ( Den hvide Slavehandel , 1910), an adventure story about a woman lured to London and forced into prostitution, which was so successful that a second part was shot the following year. In 1911, Blom also became production manager at Nordisk. In this position he discovered the actor Valdemar Psilander and directed 16 of his 17 films in 1911, including Balletdanserinden with Asta Nielsen at Psilander's side. Blom developed the style of erotic melodrama introduced in 1910 with Urban Gads Afgrunden in Danish film from Ved Faengslet's Port (1911) to Maharadjaens Yndlingshustru (1918), a Danish remake of the German film The Maharaja's Favorite Wife, penned by Marie Luise Droop .
Blom's most important production was made in 1913, the Gerhart Hauptmann film adaptation of Atlantis with Olaf Fønss in the lead role. The internationally successful film is about a ship disaster on the Atlantic. A tragic end was turned for the Russian market. The World War II was reflected in his works For sit Lands Aere (1915) and Verdens Undergang (1916).
Blom left Nordisk in the mid-1920s. In 1926 he opened the "Strandteatret" cinema in Hellerup . From 1934 until his death he ran the cinema "Kinopalæet".
He married twice, in 1908 the actress Agnete of Prangenberg and 1917, the actress and widow of the theater director Fritz Petersen Johanne Fritz Petersen, who appeared in several of his films.
Filmography (direction only)
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Web links
- August Blom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- August Blom at the Danish Film Institute (Danish) ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography and filmography
- Detailed biography
- Atlantis (stills)
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| SURNAME | Blom, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1947 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |