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Jens braender den af
(John Steals a Furlough)
(1912) Denmark
B&W : Short film
Directed by Christian Schrøder
Cast: Christian Schrøder
Nordisk Films Kompagni production; distributed by [?] Nordisk Films Kompagni or Fotorama? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Great Northern Film Company on 25 January 1913.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John is an enlisted soldier and is such in name only. The dull routine of life in the barracks gets on his nerves and his thoughts revert to the old home life and the sweetheart that he had left behind when he was obliged to enter the service of his country. While he is brooding over his sad fate, he receives a note from his lady love informing him that she has arrived in town and will meet him in a music hall and summer garden close to the barracks. John is elated to such an extent that he fails to communicate with the lieutenant, who is his superior, and he proceeds to leave the barracks through a window after the other soldiers have retired to slumber. The lieutenant, however, is also an admirer of John’s sweetheart and follows him to the place of meeting. The dear girl and John are having a most enjoyable time over their steins, when the lieutenant is espied in the offing. John makes a hasty disappearance under the table at which he has been seated and the lieutenant takes the chair that he had been occupying a few moments before. John is obliged to be an unwilling listener to the love making of the lieutenant and finally, in desperation, he decides to go back to the barracks. The lieutenant again trails him and places him under arrest on a charge of desertions. John is placed in a cell and is having visions of life imprisonment, when his sweetheart enters the office of the lieutenant and demands that John be released, otherwise she will inform the colonel of the former’s visit to the summer garden. The latter is obliged, for self-protection, to release the valiant John and the latter is granted a furlough for a few hours, instead of being obliged to steal it.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Denmark]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 December 2024.
References: Mottram-Danish p. ? : Website-IMDb.
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