The Grip

Story

Synopsis

Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Misfortune, tragic developments, and a fatal ending dominated many of the early Dutch fiction films.

Director

Léon Boedels

Writers

Jean Sartène

Language

Dutch

Country

Netherlands

Release date

4 August 1909

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Louis Bouwmeester

  Jean-Marie Hardouin

• Ko van Sprinkhuijsen

  Hippolyte

• Mien de la Mar

  Rose

• Raaf Bouwmeester

  Emile

• Frits Bouwmeester jr.

  Etienne