The priest on Snarø, Adam Valerius, is a widower for three years, and the young ladies in the parish are queuing up to become the next priest's wife. But when Adam's single housekeeper suddenly becomes pregnant, the small community gets talking, and soon the bishop is summoned. By a twist of fate, the Copenhagen actor Emil Flor, who is on his way to the island, is mistaken for the bishop, and he gets into the role and elegantly resolves the conflict. But then the real bishop appears...
Acting
Ib Schønberg's masterful double act as fraud and savior.
Costume
The bishop's regalia as both disguise and punchline.
Direction
Gregers' precise timing of the two-bishop collision.
Director
Emanuel Gregers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1944 release offered Danes escapist laughter during Nazi occupation, using period costume to comment on contemporary moral surveillance.
Ib Schønberg, already a beloved comic star, improvised several of Flor's physical reactions to clerical costume malfunctions.
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