ABSTRACT
The history of Danish film begins in a grand way despite Denmark’s smallness, as the story of one of the world’s leading film nations. During the first half of the 1910s the so-called golden age of Danish film occurred, when Denmark, alongside France, had the status of being Europe’s most influential country in the realm of film production. But this period of greatness was to be short, and Denmark has since remained a marginal film country, with the exception of a few directors who have become internationally known. Surveys of film history, with their focus on auteurs and great or artistic productions, give few or no clues to the consistent production of films in Denmark, apart from its relatively few international successes-films that have seldom been exported but on the other hand have had a solid native audience through the decades.
