The President

5.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 71 min
  • Premiere: 1919. February 1.

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.

Discover

Halvard Hoff

Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president

Elith Pio

Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father

Carl Walther Meyer

von Sendlingen's grandfather

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

Richard Christensen

Georg Berger, defense attorney

Peter Nielsen

Public prosecutor

Christian Engelstoft

Journalist

Jon Iversen

Weiden, later husband of Victorine

Carl Lauritzen

The last priest

Art

Jens G. Lind

Production Design

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Art Direction

Camera

Hans Vaagø

Director of Photography

Directing

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director

Writing

Karl Emil Franzos

Novel

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Screenplay

Art

Jens G. Lind

Production Design

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Art Direction

Camera

Hans Vaagø

Director of Photography

Directing

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director

Writing

Karl Emil Franzos

Novel

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Screenplay