The Father

August Strindberg

⏱ 7 minDrama

A rationalist cavalry captain and his cold, patient wife battle over their daughter's future, and she wields the one weapon that can destroy him: the doubt that he may not be the father at all. Strindberg's ferocious tragedy of the war between man and woman.

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