MASTER OF THE HOUSE

A film by Carl Theodor DREYER

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Danemark / original title : Du skal ære din hustru / 107’ / Noir & blanc / status : completed / Danois / General Audience / long feature-film / All Rights / French and International catalog

Viktor behaves like a tyrant with his young wife Ida, whom he treats like a slave. When Ida is ill, she goes to the country to rest without her husband’s knowledge, and Mads, Viktor’s old nursemaid, settles in as mistress of the flat. Viktor, faced with the old woman’s authority, gradually understands the harm he was doing to his own.

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