The President

02/01/1919

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1hr 11min

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Drama

STORY

By his father’s deathbed, a young man agrees to never marry below his station. Later, he falls in love with a lowly governess, impregnates her, and does not marry her. Many years later, as the President of the court of his town, he finds himself having to rule on his illegitimate daughter’s case of infanticide.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Halvard Hoff
  • Elith Pio
  • Carl Walther Meyer
  • Jacoba Jessen
  • Hallander Helleman

    Director

  • Carl Theodor Dreyer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Nordisk Film Denmark

    Production Countries

  • Denmark

LANGUAGES

  • No Language