The white slave II

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Movie
German title The white slave II / The white slave, II. Image
Original title Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer / Den hvide slavehandel II
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1911
length 47 minutes
Rod
Director August Blom
script Peter Christensen
production Ole Olsen
camera Axel Sørensen
occupation

The White Slave II is a 1910 Danish silent film directed by August Blom .

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Edith von Felsen is an orphan girl from a good family. One day she is invited to London by her aunt. On her trip there, she meets a lady who is obviously beginning to be very interested in her. Little does Edith know that this woman is just listening to her and wanting to know everything about her living conditions, because she belongs to a British girl trafficking ring. Allegedly, her aunt in London cannot pick up Edith, and so it is that ominous travel acquaintance that Edith immediately takes under her wing with a few accomplices when she arrives on English soil.

You drive together into a house that turns out to be a brothel. Without hesitation, Edith is asked to work as a prostitute. When she refuses, she is mistreated and locked up. Edith's only chance of rescue is the engineer Faith, who met the young Dane on the crossing to England and exchanged addresses with her. When he wants to visit her, he cannot find Edith at the given address and Edith's aunt doesn't know where the girl is either. Faith then does her own research to clarify the whereabouts of the girl. With the help of the police, the engineer finally tracks down the girl traffickers and is able to free Edith from their clutches. They both fall in love and decide to get married.

Production notes

The White Slave II is the second part of a three-part film cycle on the subject of girl trafficking , which Nordisk Film Kompagni produced from 1910 to 1912. The film was 930 meters long and ran on January 23, 1911 in Copenhagen's Panoptikonteatret. Cinematographer Axel Graatkjær had already photographed the first two Nordisk films about The White Slave . With this second part of the trilogy, the age of full-length cinema began in Denmark.

In view of the enormous success of the first two slave films from 1910/1911, the German production company Vitascope GmbH in Berlin decided in the same spring of 1911 to remake this story to a large extent. It was called The White Slave, Part 3 and was directed by Viggo Larsen , the director and leading actor of the very first female slave film from 1906 .

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