Silent movie

Rich jeweler Hirsch and Count von Waldberg are both wooing Stella, who opts for the latter. Hirsch turns up uninvited at a party, saying he wants to give Stella a piece of jewelry, but he gets rejected. He then challenges the count to a card duel and wins. To help Waldberg who got into a huge debt, Stella goes at Hirsch’s house to steal a precious necklace from him, but Hirsch sees the theft in a mirror and blackmails her. A story of jealousy between two men who eventually both lose Stella, killed by accident.

A man and a woman, who first met at a circus years before as kids, meet again as adults. A love story then develops between Lillie and Tom, an abused child who became a lawyer.

The piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young and handsome Knud Svane, they fall in love. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at a vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. On night Rudolph climbs a ladder ti Magda’s bedroom. She tries to fend him off, but…

A mountebank’s son leaves to study medicine, as dreamed up by his father who wants a more respectable life for him. The son returns as a graduate, but what his father does not know is that he married Marie, a dancer of his dad’s touring troupe, and became a father himself. Time goes by…

A troupe comes to perform. A charming young girl, the clown’s daughter, poorly dressed, appeals a lot to an aristocrat. They meet before a performance. They flirt and she decides to elope with him. She then finds herself propelled into a luxurious environment that she is not accustomed to. Her father decides to go and get her with one of his sidekicks. The quest begins…

Captivated by circus shows, the farmer’s son decides to leave and become a horserider. The circus manager takes him under his wing, looks after him like his own son and helps him to become a great artist. When the circus comes into town, the father feels like the proudest man on Earth when he sees the work of his son, who is definitely the best horserider of the circus.