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The President
1919, Feb 01
1h 11m
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.
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Elith Pio
Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father
Carl Walther Meyer
von Sendlingen's grandfather
Carl Lauritzen
The last priest
Richard Christensen
Georg Berger, defense attorney
Halvard Hoff
Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president
Jacoba Jessen
Maika
Hallander Helleman
Franz, in service with the president
Fanny Petersen
Brigitta, maid to the president
Olga Raphael-Linden
Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter
Betty Kirkeby
Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother
Axel Madsen
Werner, vice president
Peter Nielsen
Public prosecutor
Christian Engelstoft
Journalist
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