Komtessen

Komtessen — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 27, 1961
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Family, Drama
• Director
• Anker Sørensen

Komtessen — Cast

Poul Reichhardt Frank Jensen Birgitte Federspiel Sonia Hardenborg Ebbe Langberg Flemming Hardenborg Knud Hallest Adolph Rytting

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Signi Grenness Agnes Rytting Henning Palner Baron Torben Else-Marie Juul Hansen Jordemoder Willumsen Emil Hass Christensen