MASTER OF THE HOUSE - 1925 - ASTRID HOLM - SILENT - RARE DVD

$ 14.00

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast: Johannes Meyer ... John Astrid Holm ... Mary Karin Nellemose ... Kathleen Mathilde Nielsen ... "Nana" Clara Schønfeld ... The Mother-in-Law Johannes Nielsen ... Doctor Petrine Sonne ... Laundress Aage Hoffman ... Dick Byril Harvig ... Baby

Carl Theodor Dreyer's drama explores the home life of a family whose father has become a bitter tyrant. A danish classic.

John Allmen has become a tyrant in his own home constantly criticizing his wife Mary while being entirely unappreciative of how hard she works for the family. Old Nana, John's childhood Nanny, is outraged to see John behaving like a brute in his own home and conspires with Mary's mother to help Mary and teach John a lesson in the process.