The President

Feb 1, 1919

1h 11m

★ 5.8

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Nordisk Film Denmark

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Cast

Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president

Halvard Hoff

Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father

Elith Pio

von Sendlingen's grandfather

Carl Walther Meyer

Maika

Jacoba Jessen

Franz, in service with the president

Hallander Helleman

Brigitta, maid to the president

Fanny Petersen

Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter

Olga Raphael-Linden

Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother

Betty Kirkeby

Werner, vice president

Axel Madsen

Georg Berger, defense attorney

Richard Christensen

Public prosecutor

Peter Nielsen

Journalist

Christian Engelstoft

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