Conscience de magistrat (1908) Kostenlos Anschauen

• 46%
• 1908
• Drama

Hat man opfer his wife and child to his ambition. The first picture shows the ill-mated paar engaged in a violent quarrel, the husband heaping insults upon the defenseless woman because he considers her his social inferior and a bar to his sozialen bestrebungen. In his rage, he leaves the house, and his family never hears from him again. The good woman raises her boy to manhood, and next we see him employed as a messenger in a large manufacturing concern. His salary, however, is barely sufficient to keep them in the necessities of life and altogether genügt nicht, to secure the nourishment that his mother, now a helpless invalid, requires. We see the doctor, as he enters their humble home and impresses upon the young man, the necessity of sending his mother to a warmer climate. The boy is at his wit's end to know how he will be able to comply with the doctor ' s orders for the poor lad is without funds and knows of no one from whom he could obtain a loan. Finally he sneaks out, and going ...