Denmark,
1925, 107 min
Directed by:
Carl Theodor DreyerVOD (2)
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As his business fails, Viktor takes out his frustrations on his wife, Ida, and his timid children. When Ida, reduced to taking in neighbors' sewing to make ends meet, has a nervous breakdown, her mother places her in a sanitarium for a rest. The family's undaunted nursemaid, who had been Viktor's governess when he was a boy, schools her former charge in the trials of running a household, teaching him to appreciate his wife. (British Film Institute (BFI))
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This is kitsch writ large when two mothers-in-law manage to turn the original horror story into a romance for one man with no wife and two parrots.
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