The hvide slave trade

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Movie
Original title The hvide slave trade
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1910
length 21 minutes
Rod
Director Alfred Cohn
script Louis Schmidt
production Th. S. Hermansen for Fotorama, Aarhus
camera Alfred Lind
occupation

Den hvide slavehandel is a Danish silent film made in 1910 .

action

The young Dane Anna reads an advertisement in the newspaper that an interesting job is being advertised in England. She travels to London and leaves her friend Georg, who is sad about her departure, at home. Girl traffickers already inspected Anna during the crossing with the ship. When they arrived on British soil, these men received Anna. As soon as they landed in their clutches, the young Danish woman is kidnapped and held captive in a brothel. With the help of a chambermaid who works there, who looks forward to the actions of the smugglers with growing unease, Anna is able to send a letter to her father. He immediately goes to the local police, but they declare that they are not responsible for this case, which is taking place abroad.

Now Georg becomes active; he desperately wants to save his girlfriend. He also crosses over to London and turns to a detective there with his request for help. On the ship passage he recognized a man whom he believes he saw on board when Anna embarked. Georg quickly begins to see the connections. The detective and Georg secretly follow the man from the ship. He'll take her to the brothel. They both manage to get in touch with Anna. She ropes with a sheet from the room in which she is being held and out of the window to freedom, but is captured again a little later by the traffickers. The police, notified by the detective, approaches and turns the brothel upside down, but: no trace of Anna. But then the government receives a decisive tip from the chambermaid: Anna is being held captive on a ship! There Anna is found and freed. She returns to her home country with Georg.

Production notes

Newspaper advertisement from Fotorama with a warning that Nordisk Film had plagiarized this film.

The film, produced by a small production company based in Aarhus, can be counted as an unofficial contribution to the so-called white slave film series , which enjoyed great popularity in Northern and Central Europe in the early 1910s, but it is not one of the three Films comprising girl trafficking cycle, which Nordisk Film also launched in 1910 under the same title. This Fotorama strip therefore remained almost unknown outside of Denmark and apparently never ran in Germany, while the Nordisk plagiarism was also a huge success internationally. The 706 meter long Fotorama film had its world premiere on April 11, 1910 in Copenhagen.

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