Du skal ære din hustru
- John Meyer: Victor Frandsen
- Astrid Holm: Ida Frandsen, his wife
- Mathilde Nielsen: Mads, Viktors former nanny
- Karin Nellemose: Karen Frandsen, daughter of Ida and Victor
- Clara Schonfeld: Ida's mother
- John Nielsen: doctor
- Petrine Sun: laundress
Thou shalt honor thy wife is a Danish silent film, Carl Theodor Dreyer turned to 1925 after the play Gaddafi's fall ( Tyrannens FALD, 1919 ) of the theater and script writer Svend Rindom. The satirical drama portrays the everyday life conversion of a despotic husband to treatable pattern husband. The leading roles were occupied by the popular Danish actors John Meyer, Astrid Holm and Mathilde Nielsen. The film was photographed by George Schnéevoigt, produced by the Company A / S Dansk film industry palladium.
Action
Hero of the film is Victor, a true domestic tyrant who omits his professional failures to his wife and daughter, whom he humiliates at every opportunity. When he does to great drives it with pedantry and notoriously bad temper, takes Mads, his former nanny, the matter in hand and sends ado Viktors wife Ida to rest with her mother. The budget will be reorganized: Viktor must now all actions which he has previously imposed wife and daughter, do it yourself. He learns, albeit reluctantly, in a kind of nachgeholtem educational process, wash the dishes, wash clothes, to wrap the baby to clean the shoes. Above all, he learns to appreciate what his wife has been done for him. When she comes back, he is meek as a lamb. And also in the profession he gets back ground under their feet.
Background
The plant of the A / S Dansk film industry palladium has a length of 2430 meters. At 20 fps, which is about 107 minutes run time.
The film was premiered on October 5, 1925. He arrived in the Danish original version you skal aere din hustru for the Scandinavian market and in a version with English intertitles as Master of the House for the international distribution in the rental. In France, the movie was released under the title Maître du logis. The different versions have different lengths.
You skal aere din hustru was one of the few commercial successes Dreyer. That the film, especially in France was well received, it made Dreyer possible there 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc ( La passion de Jeanne d' Arc ) to rotate, which is today considered one of the most important film works throughout the history of film.
When sound film of the substance in 1942 by Danish director Jon Iversen was realized.
In Germany the film was shown publicly only on 28 March 1972 by the ZDF television with musical accompaniment by the composer Hans Jönsson ( 1913-1993 ).
The film based on the nitro - negative digital restoration worried 2010 the Danish production company ' Palladium ' and the Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen.
New Music version
After Hans Jönsson already in the 1970s for ZDF, a new music accompanying Thou shalt love thy wife honor had composed, born 1959 in Berlin composer Sabine Worthmann ( bass) in 2012 created his own music illustration for the film and played it along with the musicians Susanne Paul (cello), Silke Eberhard ( clarinets), Leonid Soybelman (guitar ), Michael Griener a ( percussion). The culture channel ARTE 2012 sent the recording of this performance on Tuesday 25 September at 22.55 clock.
Republication
The film was released in April 2009 on the Arthaus DVD movie sales. It was discussed by José Garcia at textezumfilm.de: "A tyrannical father who vented his professional difficulties and disappointments to his wife and children and disregards the self-sacrificing work of his wife, is cured by a conspiracy of the family."