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The Last Performance
The characters: Count Hans von Harden: Carl Barcklind
The horse instructress Rose Mailand: Selma Wiklund af Klercker
A stable boy: Henrik Jaenzon
Count Carl von Harden, the lieutenant's father: Georg af Klercker
Circus director: John Ekman
Direction: Georg af Klercker
"The Last Performance" was one of
Svenska Bio's first internationally oriented sensational dramas.
The film had two acts and was for a long time considered almost completely lost.
But most of act one has been rediscovered in the USA
and it has been restored as well as its condition allows
with the aid of still images and the original Swedish title cards.
At Circus Bernardi.
The horse instructress Rose Mailand.
At the horse stalls.
The first rendezvous.
I simply have to meet you! Count Hans von Harden
On the way to the rendezvous.
In private.
In the evening sun.
In his father's home.
At the circus. The new horse instructor.
The preserved unbroken part of the movie ends here.
The two young people are happy now.
But soon jealousy and professional envy set in.
The new horse instructor makes tremendous progress
and starts to receive stormy applauses and floral tributes.
Meanwhile, another woman enters the game.
Jealousy and envy generate Rose's hatred.
The new sensational act at the circus is "Coraldini's daredevil act"
in which the count performs a daring jump on horseback
from a platform high up under the circus dome.
Indignant at the count's success and infidelity,
Rose gives his horse an injection which makes it so nervous that
it fails the jump, and the rider and his horse plunge to the ground.
The end.