The film’s main character represents a well-known type in films set in elegant society: the sophisticated, bored, upper-class dandy. The commercial borrows its title from a famous 18th-century play by Ludvig Holberg (known as “the Molière of the North”) first performed in 1726, giving the audience some – false – expectations. Except for the main character’s wealth and restless personality, the story hasn’t much in common with Holberg’s play. Where Holberg’s anti-hero Vielgeschrey is always agitated and anxious, the film’s protagonist is simply restless; apart from being bored, he seems to have no worries at all. His seemingly never-ending hunt for pleasure and amusement takes him first on a lake cruise with friends, then a speedboat, then a roadster. Not until he gets the grip of a truly good cigarette can he relax, and stroll through the peaceful landscape back to his garden cocktail party, where the film began.
There is no credited director, but the production company is easily identified by the intertitles as SI-HA-Film, the abbreviation for Sinding-Hansen, the surname of the company’s founder. Not much is known about the company, but SI-HA-Film and Niels Sinding-Hansen are credited with a handful of animated commercials created in 1927-28.
The source for this DCP is an original tinted nitrate print. It was digitized in 2019.

Tina Anckarman & Magnus Rosborn