Peter von Scholten

Name: Peter von Scholten
Director: Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt
Released: 1987
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Ole Ernst, Karen-Lise Mynster, Anna Adair, Jesper Langberg, Henning Moritzen

1987 · 113 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 166 VOTES · DIR. Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt

Overview

He freed the slaves in 1848. He spoke out against the king and the government. He loved his wives equally. He was colorful, he was autocratic, he was Denmark's last governor-general of the West Indies, his name was Peter von Scholten. The film about him is a magnificent story of greatness, power, and stubbornness on the one hand, and of love, loyalty, and melancholy on the other. It is a colorful gallery of characters that depicts the times, the Dane in a foreign land—and the black man in relief to the white.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,071 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:22 In three days, Anna Heegaard.

00:08:07 At attention!

00:12:37 From organist Pram to the meetings in the government.

00:16:45 The letters? Which are black on a white background.

00:20:39 May I ask the Governor-General a question?

00:23:31 ... not only don't I want to see your back -

00:29:28 You have to get used to both husband and troop heat at once.

00:33:06 I am only wearing a wrong skin.

00:38:30 Then it will not be the last time you get the opportunity to be outraged.

00:44:46 - So the poison of the blacks? - One has to assume that.

00:49:37 I will return with the answer.

00:53:38 Do you think they are there to get rid of you?

00:56:38 Yes. Yes. I'll stay, Dorothea.

01:00:38 In the truest sense of the word, we live out there between fire and water.

01:03:55 The reports we have from the West Indies tell us that the situation is serious.

01:07:25 Do you know what we are doing? Do you know what we'll do with those dog heads?

01:11:17 Thanks.

01:16:11 You should think so, Governor-General.

01:21:49 Fire.

01:25:45 If the Governor-General's presence in Frederiksted is necessary...

01:29:29 - Two times two cannon shots. - I will oppose that.

01:33:39 You gave the plantation owners year after year.

01:39:09 Forty of our own slaves. What do you mean?

01:46:46 WHEN HE APPEALED TO SUPREME COURT, HE WAS ACQUITED. 3 YEARS AFTER HE DIED. 'FATHERLAND' PAPER WROTE THE FOLLOWING DAY 'THE STATE SAVES 12.000 IN A YEAR IN PENSION. THE SLAVES REMAINED FREE!