This year, the film Institute of Copenhagen is guest archive of the Filmmuseum Biënnale, the biannual festival in which the Dutch Filmmuseum presents well-known and unknown treasures from its archive. To mark the involvement of the Danish Institute as guest archive, the festival is showing two short silent Danish films with live music accompaniment, with Martin de Ruiter on accordion, Yvo Verschoor on piano/keyboard, and a violinist and cellist.
August Blom was artistic director of the Danish production company Nordisk and directed many of their box office hits. At the Prison’s Gate (also known…