 Also that year, she starred as the character "Christine Daaé" in a German adaptation, directed by Ernst Matray, of Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" opposite Swedish actor Nils Olaf Chrisander.From 1917 Aud Egede-Nissen was not contented with being an actor in other companies' films in Berlin.In partnership with her husband Georg Alexander, she started the Egede-Nissen Film Co. ("Egede-Nissen Filmbyrå") where she was the artistic and financial manager.