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The President is a danois film of genre Drama directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer with Halvard Hoff
The President (1919)
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Add to a movie listPræsidenten (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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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.Actors
Halvard Hoff
(Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president)
Elith Pio
(Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father)
Jon Iversen
(Weiden, later husband of Victorine)
Carl Lauritzen
(The last priest)
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