The Absentee

The Absentee — Plot

Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.

• Release date
• May 2, 1913
• Runtime
• 36 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Albert Capellani

The Absentee — Cast

Henri Étiévant Dries Schoonejans Henri Rollan Peter Schoonejans Jeanne Grumbach Schoonmoeder Grietje / Mother-in-law Grietje Germaine Dermoz Minna Petrus

R

Raymonde Dupré Dina

H

Henri Collen