The President

Year: 1919

Runtime: 71 mins

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Drama

On his father’s deathbed, a young man swears never to marry beneath his social rank. He later falls for a modest governess, impregnates her, and refuses to wed her. Years later, now President of his town’s court, he must adjudicate a case of infanticide involving his own illegitimate daughter.

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