Oskar? That's my driver. And Tina, my maid, must have taken my suitcase with her to the baron - the one my daughter should have been engaged to. But now she is having a child with Oskar. And one of my people has stolen more than 300,000 DKR from me, because he wants to marry my daughter, who is not my daughter. And now the has girl run off with all of my jewels ..
Acting
Dirch Passer's physical comedy as the panicked patriarch.
Writing
Claude Magnier's play adapted with razor-sharp irony.
Director
Gabriel Axel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Axel filmed this during Denmark's shift from agrarian to welfare state, making the crumbling bourgeois family feel like national allegory.
Claude Magnier's play ran for years in Paris; Axel's film was the first major Danish adaptation of French boulevard comedy.
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