Jon Mirsalis on Piano

(Alexander den Store). Alexander is a headwaiter who must deal with citizens' complaints about the moral depravity displayed by the customers at his restaurant. In this loose adaptation of the successful stage comedy by Gustav Esmann, the quick, comic dialogue of the play is replaced by comic situations and burlesque effects, but shot and edited in such a way that the film pioneers the development of an international style. Although the preserved copy of this film is not complete, it is one of the few surviving examples of the actual color tinting used in Swedish silent films, and informed the reconstruction of the other films.