The President
1919 · 71 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 1,107 VOTES · DIR. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Overview
By his father’s deathbed, the young Karl Victor von Sendlingen swears that he will never make the same mistake his father made in his youth: to marry a girl beneath his own station. The promise proves to have fatal consequences when Karl Victor falls in love with a young governess, whom he impregnates but refuses to marry as this would break his oath to his father. Many years later, he is a highly respected president of the court about to deal out judgment to a young woman who has killed her new-born child. The young woman turns out to be his own illegitimate daughter, and Karl Victor is suddenly faced with the choice of doing his professional duty or making amends for his past misdeeds. (Stumfilm.dk)
Dialogue Timeline — 228 lines
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00:00:09 THE PRESIDENT
00:01:34 will let him know what his kin is forbidden to do.
00:06:49 Our trysts were clandestine and frequent.
00:11:35 I have done my duty and now I am ready...
00:14:27 Here is a list of the prisoners awaiting trial.
00:19:27 "as you know, and I therefore beseech you to take over the bench in this case. Your devoted friend Georg Berger"
00:25:14 but never a villain. She is to be my wife!"
00:26:58 "Poor friend — and poor, poor girl!"
00:30:44 "Her crime, which was clearly with malice aforethought,...
00:32:07 "Only 17 years old, she lost her mother....
00:35:29 A hundred seeds remain On the dandelion bloom...
00:37:35 you will sort things out as well as possible."
00:42:59 "Although I see that your votes are equal and mine...
00:47:10 Victorine recalls the death of her mother.
00:52:32 Victorine Lippert, whose petition for clemency has been turned down.
00:56:05 Four days later. In honour of the promotion of the president...
00:57:41 in honour of the president.
01:02:43 Half an hour later.
01:09:36 "Drive as fast as you can....
01:10:32 Your friend, Karl Victor.
01:15:48 A belated wedding procession.
01:20:43 undermine confidence in the judiciary!"
01:22:05 burdensome mile to the ruins of his ancestral castle.