The Absentee

Release Date: 1913-05-02

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Henri Étiévant

as Dries Schoonejans

Henri Rollan

as Peter Schoonejans

Jeanne Grumbach

as Schoonmoeder Grietje / Mother-in-law Grietje

Germaine Dermoz

as Minna Petrus

Raymonde Dupré

as Dina