The Parson’s Widow

Year: 1920

Runtime: 94 mins

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

DramaComedy

After being chosen by his tight‑knit village to serve as parson, the young clergyman discovers that his first duty is to wed his predecessor’s widow. The arrangement is awkward—she is old enough to be his grandmother—and he is already committed to another woman, creating a painful conflict between duty, tradition and love.

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