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The President (1919)

Feb 01, 1919 Drama 1h 11m
User Score
58%
25 votes
Internet Movie Database
66%

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.

Carl Theodor Dreyer
Director

Top Billed Cast

Halvard Hoff
Halvard Hoff

Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president
Elith Pio
Elith Pio

Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father
Carl Walther Meyer
Carl Walther Meyer

von Sendlingen's grandfather
Jacoba Jessen
Jacoba Jessen

Maika
Hallander Helleman
Hallander Helleman

Franz, in service with the president
Fanny Petersen
Fanny Petersen

Brigitta, maid to the president
Olga Raphael-Linden
Olga Raphael-Linden

Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter
Betty Kirkeby
Betty Kirkeby

Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother
Axel Madsen
Axel Madsen

Werner, vice president

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