Movielogr
The President (1919)
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Overview
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.
Length 71 minutes
Actors
Halvard Hoff | Elith Pio | Carl Walther Meyer | Jacoba Jessen | Hallander Helleman | Fanny Petersen | Olga Raphael-Linden | Betty Kirkeby | Axel Madsen | Richard Christensen | Peter Nielsen | Christian Engelstoft | Jon Iversen | Carl Lauritzen