''Hemmeligheden'' (The Secret) is a Norwegian silent film from 1912 that is considered lost.

Plot

The film was a drama in which a young woman from a coastal town gets to know an artist from Paris. They start a relationship and she has a daughter. The young woman, Elise, leaves, and on the steamship home to Norway she throws the child overboard. When she returns home, she marries Lieutenant Almeng. It turns out that the child she threw overboard did not die, but was found by a fishing couple, who have adopted the child. One day, Elise and the lieutenant meet the fisherman, and Elise breaks down and tells her husband the story of what happened. The lieutenant first takes the matter very sternly, but when he sees how unhappy this has made Elise, he goes to the fisherman and retrieves his wife's daughter, and he promises to treat her as though she were his own child.

Cast

* Christian Nobel as Lieutenant Almeng *

Signe Danning Signe Thora Aas Danning (August 25, 1878 – February 10, 1980) was a Norwegians, Norwegian actress from the silent film era. Danning was born in Oslo, Kristiania (now Oslo). She was engaged with the Den Nationale Scene, National Stage in Berg ...

as Elsie Halling * Pehr Qværnstrøm as a fisherman *

Robert Sperati Robert Kristian Paolo Sperati (July 27, 1872 – October 12, 1945) was a Norwegian stage actor and film actor from the silent-film era. Career Sperati was born in Bergen. He made his debut at the National Theater in Bergen as the aristocrat in ...

as Halling the landowner *

Emmy Worm-Müller Emmy Helene Worm-Müller (born Emmy Helene Hornemann, May 3, 1875 – August 23, 1950) was a Norwegian actress. Career Worm-Müller starred in some of the earliest Norwegian silent films. Worm-Müller made her debut in 1911 in '' Fattigdommens f ...

as the fisherman's wife

References

External links

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''Hemmeligheden''
at Norsk filmografi 1912 films Norwegian drama films Norwegian black-and-white films Norwegian silent films 1912 drama films Lost Norwegian films Silent drama films 1910s Norwegian-language films {{Norway-film-stub