The President
Præsidenten
1919 · DK
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer's first feature, 1919, Nordisk: a judge (Halvard Hoff) must try his own illegitimate daughter for infanticide. From a play by Karl Emil Franzos. Denmark, just after the war. Dreyer is already cutting faces as if they were verdicts — the old man, the girl, the past that is a legal document. It is not The Passion of Joan of Arc. It is the film in which he learned that a courtroom is a close-up.
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1919 · Source: DonaldPBorchersOG
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Cast
Principal players
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
H
Hallander Helleman
Franz, in service with the president
F
Fanny Petersen
Brigitta, maid to the president
O
Olga Raphael-Linden
Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter
B
Betty Kirkeby
Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother
A
Axel Madsen
Werner, vice president
Richard Christensen
Georg Berger, defense attorney
P
Peter Nielsen
Public prosecutor
C
Christian Engelstoft
Journalist
Jon Iversen
Weiden, later husband of Victorine
Carl Lauritzen
The last priest
Crew
Carl Theodor Dreyer
writer
Hans Vaagø
cinematographer
