Karl Victor von Sendling, a respected presiding judge, faces a devastating moral dilemma when he has to judge a young woman accused of infanticide. To his horror, he discovers that the accused is his own illegitimate daughter, the product of a youthful affair with a governess whom he abandoned to comply with a family promise not to marry women of low social standing. Torn between his professional duty as a judge and his personal conscience, Karl Victor decides to risk his career and honour to try to save his daughter from execution, confronting the consequences of his past actions.

Denmark, 1919.
Fiction. 71 minutes.
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer.
Courtesy of the Danish Film Institute.

The films are screened in their original version with Spanish subtitles.