Ole Olsen (filmmaker)

Ole Olsen ( born May 5, 1863 in Tangemose at Starreklinte in Vallekilde Sogn, † October 5, 1943 in the district of Copenhagen Hellerup ) was a Danish film producer. He founded the production company Nordisk Film A / S.

Life

On April 23, 1905 Olsen opened with the Biograph Theater, the second permanently operated cinema in Copenhagen. Since he supposedly wanted to show more like high quality movies, as at that time were available, he decided to found his own production company. His first film was about the funeral, who died on January 29, 1906 King Christian IX.

After Olsen had bought a plot of land in the Valby district for the construction of a film studio, the company was officially registered Nordisk film on November 6, 1906 in the commercial register. This Nordisk is a film that on the original site in Valby is still a resident, the oldest existing film production company in the world.

During the silent era film Nordisk belonged to the world's most successful film producers and was able to market his films successful in many countries. After Olsen retired in 1924, but slowly began the decline of the company, due to the rise of Hollywood and international sound film.

Olsen earned 1933 Esterhøjhof at the foot of a hill in Esterhøj. He built from 1936 to 1938 between two grave mounds from the Bronze Age, its own grave mound. Made from bronze entrance door to Olsen's grave chamber by a polar bear, the symbol of his film company Nordisk Film, adorned. After his death in 1943 his ashes were interred in a grave subject in grave chamber of the hill. Later, the urns Olsen's wife and his children were buried in the grave chamber. According to a testamentary disposition, to his grave professional on October 5, 2143 to be opened again two hundred years after his death. The grave chamber was opened and desecrated in January 2010 by two unknown men.