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TWO FILM DVD: THE PRESIDENT (1919) + THE QUEEN OF SPADES (1916)

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer Elith Pio as Franz Victor von Sendlingen Halvard Hoff as Karl Victor von Sendlingen Jacoba Jessen as Maika Axel Madsen as Vice-President Werner Richard Christensen as Georg Berger Olga Raphael Linden as Victorine Lippert Betty Kirkeby as Hermine Lippert Hallander Hellemann as Franz Fanny Petersen as Birgitta
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THE PRESIDENT (1919):

The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child and is rather sure she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn't want to marry her. As expected the sentence for his daughter is death. The judge asks for a pardon.

DVD-R has Danish and English intertitles with no subtitles. Approx. 85 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

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THE QUEEN OF SPADES (1916):

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.

DVD-R has Russian intertitles with hard-encoded English subtitles. Approx. 62 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

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