Komtessen

6.8

Denmark

Family Drama

93 min

1961

Poul Reichhardt Henry Lohmann Hugo Herrestrup Henry Nielsen Bendt Rothe Else Hvidhøj Inge Ketti Lily Broberg Anne Werner Thomsen Kjeld Jacobsen Maria Garland Mimi Heinrich Emil Hass Christensen Else-Marie Juul Hansen Henning Palner Knud Hallest Ebbe Langberg Birgitte Federspiel Malene Schwartz

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.