Master of the House
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 22, 2014
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johannes Meyer & Astrid Holm | |
Directed by | Carl Theodor Dreyer | |
Edited by | Carl Theodor Dreyer | |
Screenwriting by | Carl Theodor Dreyer | |
Cinematography by | George Schneevoigt | |
Art Direction by | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
Entertainment Reviews:
A film of uncanny transformation
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CinePassion
Dreyer's films in general, and Master Of The House in particular, are among the finest silent movies ever made.
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Film4
Formally and politically decades ahead of its time.
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Chicago Reader
[T]he movie is unrelenting in its critique of the patriarchal family and insistent on the truism that a woman’s work is never done.
Washington Post
Rating: 5/5 --
This domestic tragicomedy with a feminist slant was [Dreyer's] seventh feature and anticipates his greatest films.
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Radio Times
Rating: C+ --
A film noted for presenting feminist issues before its time.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Originally titled DU SKAL AERE DIN HUSTRU, MASTER OF THE HOUSE was also released as THOU SHALT HONOR THY WIFE. By any title, the film was arguably the most successful Scandinavian film of the silent era, playing to turn-away business throughout Europe. Based on a play by Sven Rindon, the film centers upon Johannes Meyer, an insensitive bully who browbeats his wife and children beyond all reason. The big jerk is taught a lesson by his own nanny, now an aging crone, who begins giving him a dose of his own medicine. This humiliating experience enables Meyer to stage a warm reunion with his wife, who had previously walked out on him. It may seem like basic sitcom material, but MASTER OF THE HOUSE apparently struck a nerve in the chauvinistically inclined Europe and Denmark of 1925.
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- Sales Rank: 106,112
- UPC: 715515117913
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