This is a nicely done Dreyer offering, though a less serious one. A man who has fallen on hard times when he loses his business, takes it out daily on his family, mostly on his poor wife. We see his stern, demanding personality in the first half until her mother tells her to leave him and teach him a lesson. Things are very predictable but the film is nicely done and the main character Viktor becomes hateful to us. There is a sad scene where in order to appease his demand for more butter, the wife scrapes what little she has from her own bread as well as her children's.
Review of Master of the House
