The President

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director

Halvard Hoff

Karl Victor von Sendlingen, court president

Elith Pio

Franz Victor von Sendlingen, Karl's father

Carl Walther Meyer

von Sendlingen's grandfather

Jacoba Jessen

Maika

Hallander Helleman

Franz, in service with the president

Fanny Petersen

Brigitta, maid to the president

Olga Raphael-Linden

Victorine Lippert, Karl's daughter

Betty Kirkeby

Hermine Lippert, Victorine's mother

Axel Madsen

Werner, vice president

Richard Christensen

Georg Berger, defense attorney

Peter Nielsen

Public prosecutor

Christian Engelstoft

Journalist

Jon Iversen

Weiden, later husband of Victorine

Carl Lauritzen

The last priest