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The End of the World (1916)

6.1 | Apr 01, 1916 (DK) | Science Fiction, Action, Drama | 01:13

Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father's will, she elopes with the unscrupulous Stoll. News of a meteor approaching the earth causes panic and Stoll exploits the situation to make a killing on the stock market; Collaborating with the press to quell the news of the meteor eases public tensions and guarantees him a fortune. He plans to survive in a secret underground tunnel, with Dina and his wealthy pals in tow. But things don't go as planned.

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Olaf Fønss
Frank Stoll, mine owner and stock market speculator
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Carl Lauritzen
West, mine foreman
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Ebba Thomsen
Dina, West's daughter and Flint's fiancée
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Johanne Fritz-Petersen
Edith, West's daughter
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Thorleif Lund
Flint, miner
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Alf Blütecher
Reymers, coxswain
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Frederik Jacobsen
The wandering preacher
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K. Zimmerman
Professor Wissmann, astronomical scholar