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The End of the World (1916)

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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Top billed cast

Olaf FønssFrank Stoll, mine owner and stock market speculator
Carl LauritzenWest, mine foreman
Ebba ThomsenDina, West's daughter and Flint's fiancée
Johanne Fritz-PetersenEdith, West's daughter
Thorleif LundFlint, miner
Alf BlütecherReymers, coxswain
Frederik JacobsenThe wandering preacher
K. ZimmermanProfessor Wissmann, astronomical scholar
Moritz Bielawski
Erik Holberg

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