
The Abyss
Drama
Overview
Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing circus rider Rudolf. But circus life with Rudolf quickly turns out to be anything but happy, and Magda comes to a tragic end.
Top Cast


Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen
Magda Vang
Asta Nielsen
Magda Vang


Poul Reumert
Poul Reumert
Artist Rudolf Stern / Circus Performer
Poul Reumert
Artist Rudolf Stern / Circus Performer


Robert Dinesen
Robert Dinesen
Ingenieur Knud Svane / Magda's Fiancé
Robert Dinesen
Ingenieur Knud Svane / Magda's Fiancé
Hans Neergaard
Hans Neergaard
Pastor Peder Svane / Knud's Father
Hans Neergaard
Pastor Peder Svane / Knud's Father
Hulda Didrichsen
Hulda Didrichsen
Frau Svane
Hulda Didrichsen
Frau Svane


Emilie Sannom
Emilie Sannom
Varietésängerin Lilly d'Estrelle / Magda's Rival
Emilie Sannom
Varietésängerin Lilly d'Estrelle / Magda's Rival


Oscar Stribolt
Oscar Stribolt
Kellner / Waiter
Oscar Stribolt
Kellner / Waiter


Arne Weel
Arne Weel
Guest in Garden
Arne Weel
Guest in Garden
Johannes Fønss
Johannes Fønss
Guest in Garden
Johannes Fønss
Guest in Garden


Torben Meyer
Torben Meyer
Secondary Role (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Secondary Role (uncredited)
Similar Movies

Mula lives with her husband, sick mother and daughter Nina in a countryside house. At the weekend before Nina’s First Holy Communion, her brother with his family come for a visit together with Kaja – Mula’s younger sister, who disappeared suddenly 6 years earlier. Kaja is Nina’s biological mother. Mula is afraid that unstable Kaja might want to take her daughter away.

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.

Do you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United States. I mean the first time you traveled alone!? The great adventure. In 1991, I was a 21-years-old student. I went to Europe. Not because I wanted to visit all the great capitals, but because I wanted love... I wanted Marie-Ève Bernard.
















