Take What You Want
Released: July 5, 1947Runtime: 100 minLanguage: DA
Consul Bergholtz is ill and will probably die soon. Family members gather at her bedside, each with the expectation of receiving a share of the impending inheritance. Among the heirs are her sons, the alcoholic editor Oscar and the homosexual lecturer Ejnar, as well as their pretty and recently divorced sister Esther. But when her grandson, the cunning and unscrupulous businessman Kurt, shows up, the intrigues are stoked. Kurt couldn't care less about good manners and cultural veneer; he simply takes what he wants.
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Ebbe Rode
as Kurt Bergholtz
Agnes Thorberg Wieth
as Konsulinde Hedvig Bergholtz
Bjarne Forchhammer
as Lektor Ejnar Bergholtz
Ib Sch Nberg
as Redaktør Oscar Bergholtz
Ellen Gottschalch
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Erni Arneson
as Esther Wulff
Helle Virkner
as Britta Wulff
Hans Egede Budtz
as Professor Axel Wulff
Vera Gebuhr
as Marianne Beyer
Bj Rn Watt Boolsen
as Poul Strøm
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