Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Misfortune, tragic developments, and a fatal ending dominated many of the early Dutch fiction films.
Léon Boedels
Director
Louis Bouwmeester
Jean-Marie Hardouin
Ko van Sprinkhuijsen
Hippolyte
Mien de la Mar
Rose
Raaf Bouwmeester
Emile
Frits Bouwmeester jr.
Etienne
The Surrender59%
The Unhealer58%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
Little Boy Blue59%
TalhotBlond63%
Savaged66%
Hellion58%
Play Dead61%
Girl in the Box67%
A Crooked Somebody63%
40 Acres67%
Run60%
Compulsion61%
Night of the Sicario58%
Starving in Suburbia65%
The Transfiguration59%
The Parts You Lose66%
Guilty by Suspicion65%
Frank and Penelope73%
The Parish58%
