Major Frans(1916)

movie - first aired/released 1916-08-25 - 54 min - audience 5.5

Comedy, Drama

Directed by Maurits Binger

When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.