Komtessen

Komtessen

1961 · 93 min · ★ 6.8 · Family, Drama

In the village Karrild, the Countess Sonia Hardenborg and a young unmarried woman, Marta, give birth to a daughter on the same day. Marta dies after birth, so Marta's daughter, Betina, come under the care of the countess. 17 years later, Betina and Countess Sonia's daughter, Maria, meet, as Betina is living in a home for orphaned girls, which is adjacent to the Hardenborg estate. The two girls become friends, and Maria invites Betina to visit her at Hardenborg, to greet her parents Sonia and Otto Hardenborg and her brother Count Flemming. Meanwhile, Betina's father, Frank Jensen, starts working in the estate's woods, and when the two girls come to visit him, he is shocked by the resemblance between the young countess and Betina's mother Marta.

Directed by Anker Sørensen · Written by Anker Sørensen

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Poul Reichhardt Frank Jensen
Birgitte Federspiel Sonia Hardenborg
Ebbe Langberg Flemming Hardenborg
Knud Hallest Adolph Rytting
Signi Grenness Agnes Rytting
Henning Palner Baron Torben
Else-Marie Juul Hansen Jordemoder Willumsen
Emil Hass Christensen
Mimi Heinrich
Maria Garland
Kjeld Jacobsen
Michael Flach

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