Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film

Abstract

and of the suffering but conscientious character of the Nordic writers and dramatists of the eighteen-eighties. (The cinema is always a few years behind the reigning intellectual fashions.) In Asta Nielsen, the Danish film gave us an artist of real merit whose sphinxlike appeal was to last for many years. (Bardèche and Brasillach 1938 [1935], 57)