Everyman

Everyman (1915)

In 1911 the German poet Hugo von Hofmansthal wrote a new version of the medieval morality play Everyman, and this was staged in Danish translation at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen in 1915. At the time, it was radical example of symbolist abstraction. Its success inspired a film version, Enhver [Everyman], directed by Vilhelm Glückstadt for Filmfabrikken Danmark. The film, however, was set in a modern-day environment. It depict the moral choice confronting its protagonist at struggle because two attendant spirits, one good and one bad. The protagonist is tempted by dark figure of evil and succumbs, rejecting God and leading a life of iniquity, but he is then haunted by guilty visions until he finally dies, asking God for forgiveness at the last moment.

Director: Vilhelm Glückstadt

Casts

	Peter S. Andersen as The Evil Spirit
	Gudrun Houlberg as Sylvia
	Lilly Jansen as The Good Angel
	Charles Løwaas as
	Peter Malberg as Kurt
	Valdemar Møller as Vicar
	Jonna Neiiendam as Enhver's Mother
	Rasmus Ottesen as Enhver
	Else Schiwe as Martha
	Alfred Sjøholm as Actor

Crew