Præsidenten
Præsidenten (The President) is a 1919 Danish silent film by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is the first feature film directed by Dreyer and it is an adaptation of the 1884 novel Der Präsident by Karl Emil Franzos.
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6.1A judge sees his illegitimate daughter face trial for infanticide. He's certain that she will receive the death sentence.
Released: 1919-02-0185 minDir: Carl Theodor DreyerDrama
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Cast
- Halvard Hoff as Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president
- Elith Pio as Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father
- Carl Walther Meyer as von Sendlingen's grandfather
- Jacoba Jessen as Maika
- Hallander Helleman as Franz, in service with the president
- Fanny Petersen as Brigitta, maid to the president
Themes
- courtroom
- illegitimate child
- infanticide
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Præsidenten (The President) is a 1919 Danish silent film by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is the first feature film directed by Dreyer and it is an adaptation of the 1884 novel Der Präsident by Karl Emil Franzos.
== Plot == The film tells a story of women seduced and abandoned over four generations. It follows three periods in the life of Karl Victor von Sendlingen, a Danish aristocrat living in a small city at the turn of the 20th century. The chronological narrative is interrupted by flashbacks recalling past events.