The End of the World (1916)
April 1, 1916
Science Fiction, Action, Drama
1h 13m


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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- August Blom
- Frank Stoll, mine owner and stock market speculator Olaf Fønss
- West, mine foreman Carl Lauritzen
- Dina, West's daughter and Flint's fiancée Ebba Thomsen
- Edith, West's daughter Johanne Fritz-Petersen
- Reymers, coxswain Alf Blütecher
- The wandering preacher Frederik Jacobsen
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Keywords
- end of the world
- flood
- disaster movie