Master of the House
Master of the House

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Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida has to work as a slave for him and the rest of the family. She rises early to prepare everything for the day, she toils all day long, and she is often up also in the night, doing some sewing to earn extra money for the household. In daytime she is supported by an old woman called Mads, who was Victors' nanny when he was a child. Mads is filled with loathing for Victor's behavior towards his wife, and calls him a brute. She un... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Master of the House:

Johannes Meyer
Astrid Holm
Karin Nellemose
Mathilde Nielsen
Clara Schønfeld
Johannes Nielsen

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Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida has to work as a slave for him and the rest of the family. She rises early to prepare everything for the day, she toils all day long, and she is often up also in the night, doing some sewing to earn extra money for the household. In daytime she is supported by an old woman called Mads, who was Victors' nanny when he was a child. Mads is filled with loathing for Victor's behavior towards his wife, and calls him a brute. She understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown, and persuades Ida's mother, Mrs. Kryer, to take Ida away. Mads will herself take care of the household and the children for a time. When Victor comes home and finds out that Ida is gone, he gets angry. He asks his daughter, Karen, where her mother is, but she refuses to tell him. She only says that her mother is very ill, and that it will be his fault if she dies. The accusation strikes Victor in his heart, and he sits down, feeling dejected. Karen consoles him, and tells him where her mother is. When Victor arrives at Mrs. Kryer's apartment, looking for his wife, the visiting doctor won't let him in. The doctor tells Victor that Ida has to take a complete rest in the countryside to get well. Victor returns home, broken-hearted, and is now willing to submit himself to Mads' new regime. Mads has become the master of the house, and Victor has to undergo her educational scheme. Step by step he learns to take an active part in the domestic work. Not until he is completely changed, will Mads and Mrs. Kryer let him meet Ida again.

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Radio Times - 10/10 by Ronald BerganThis domestic tragicomedy with a feminist slant was [Dreyer's] seventh feature and anticipates his greatest films.
User Review - 10/10 by Dave JEarlier movies centering on a mistreated housewife.
User Review - 8/10 by Tim SMaster of the House (AKA Du skal ære din hustru, or Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife in English) tells the story of a Danish family with a tyrannical father figure whose persona causes much discontent in an unhappy home. Soon his thoughtlessness and carelessness are used against him as he is made to endure what the women and children in his life have endured at the cruel command of himself, which is the only way that he can get his wife back and that the family can become whole once again. Carl Theodor Dreyer directed the film in 1925 before his success with his films The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr (both of which audiences are more familiar with). This film was a major success when it was released in Denmark, but not so much in the United States. The strange thing about its release abroad is that when it was distributed outside of Denmark, the intertitles were changed and didn't make use of translations from Danish. Not only that, but all of the characters' names were changed to be more accepted by English-speaking audiences. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a masterpiece from beginning to end. Despite being a marvelous film that should hold one's interest all the way through quite powerfully, I found the subject matter oversimplified and a bit out of date. One also can't deny that it basically drags at times, hitting the nail over the head of an idea or a story mechanic that really should have moved on from two or three minutes sooner. Regardless of all of that, it's still a beautiful film, told by an innovative storyteller. It may not throw you any curve balls or leave you with any sense of awe, but it's damn fine cinema.
User Review - 6/10 by Philip W7° film muto di C.T. Dreyer, tratto da Tyrannens Fäld (La caduta del tiranno, 1919), gradevole commedia di Svend Rindom, che il regista danese purifica e sfronda secondo i principi del suo stile: concentrazione e rarefazione. A Copenaghen l'orologiaio Viktor, ex artigiano diventato operaio, tiranneggia la moglie Ida e i tre figli. Malata, Ida lascia la casa per curarsi, sostituita dall'energica nutrice Mads (M. Nielsen) che in un mese ridimensiona e fa pentire il tiranno. Ida ritorna dal marito che sembra cambiato e rimette in moto la pendola: ?Il cuore della casa batte di nuovo.? Lieta fine ironicamente ambigua. Diviso in 3 parti, girato quasi per intero in due stanze più cucina con rigorosa semplicità, rispecchia fedelmente la poetica dreyerana: l'elogio dell'amore coniugale; il tema della resistenza passiva; un trio di personaggi principali; la plastica descrizione della banalità quotidiana, l'ammirevole controllo degli attori. E un umorismo di sottigliezza elegante. Buon successo in Danimarca e trionfo in Francia: proiettato a Parigi in 72 sale. Unico film di Dreyer che fu rifatto: Tyrannens Fäld (1942) con K. Nellemose (la figlia) nella parte della madre e ancora M. Nielsen come nutrice. 2.356 (2.323) m (circa 100´ a 20 fotogrammi al secondo). [Morandini]
User Review - 6/10 by Andrew BA silent, mildly entertaining Dutch domestic comedy about a tyrannical man whose wife leaves him to take a rest in the country and leaves him with his no-nonsense former nanny. The nanny uses tough love to teach him about respect and makes him understand that he needs to be sympathetic to his wife. And that's about it as far as the plot goes. Worth watching once if only for the wonderful performance from Mathilde Nielsen as the nanny, Mads.
User Review - 4/10 by Andrey BA boring and sad picture, I can't believe this was made by the same director who in several years would make 'Vampyr'. Such phrases like 'all *insert any group here* are alike' or 'all *insert any group here* are foolish' deserve condemnation alone. How such a director could make such a simple-minded, edging with stupidity, film, I don't know. It's not comedy at all, it's a story about hateful, evil, disgusting people. The first one being a vainglorious, for whatever reason, man named Viktor, who abuses his wife and children; we are told that it's how it's like in a typical household, which is outright lie in itself - the truth is he takes the extreme and exploits it for some agenda, making it as an 'example'; the same way he could have taken an abusive wife and shown a 'typical' woman of the household, which would have been absurd just the same. Then we are presented with the other tyrant, who is probably more evil and hideous, an old woman named Mads, who is as resentful and hateful, but does it in more secretive and repulsive manner; under the countenance of a concerned person there hides a monster, bragging about how she used to spank him in the childhood; probably if she did less spanking and shared more love, Viktor wouldn't have been such an awful person, it's all about nurture too, isn't it? All in all, we have a movie which doesn't raise questions, or in the end we don't feel changed or our worldview shattered, it teaches us to answer to hate with hate, I wonder what happened to Christian values of compassion? I give this film two stars only for technical reasons, but even technically the film is much weaker than its contemporary pictures of Germany or Sweden, for example. As for the content, this film is awful.

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