Master of the House (1925). Carl Theodor Dreyer

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This is the story of a spoilt husband, a type that is extinct in this country, but still exists abroad. And it is the story also of a heroine – not the brilliant, beautifully gowned and shingled heroine of the film play – but just an ordinary wife and mother whose life is compassed by the four walls of her suburban home.

When first you marry, your wife is an angel... You want to kneel at her feet and worship her... But later on, when she really deserves your homage, you treat her like a galley slave!

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