By his father’s deathbed, a young man agrees to never marry below his station. Later, he falls in love with a lowly governess, impregnates her, and does not marry her. Many years later, as the President of the court of his town, he finds himself having to rule on his illegitimate daughter’s case of infanticide.
Halvard Hoff
as Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president
Elith Pio
as Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father
Carl Walther Meyer
as von Sendlingen's grandfather
Jacoba Jessen
as Maika
Hallander Helleman
as Franz, in service with the president
Fanny Petersen
as Brigitta, maid to the president
Olga Raphael-Linden
as Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter
Betty Kirkeby
as Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother
Axel Madsen
as Werner, vice president
Richard Christensen
as Georg Berger, defense attorney
Peter Nielsen
as Public prosecutor
Christian Engelstoft
as Journalist
