The President (Præsidenten)
- For:
- General public
- Time:
19.30
- Place:
- Auditorium
- Price:
Free activity. Prior booking request.
Booking opens on 16 February online and on tel. +34 917 911 370 (from 12.00 to 20.00).
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.
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