The Master and his Servants was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
[1] Just after Sigurd Helmer (Claes Hill) is ordained a bishop, his archrival Tornkvist (Georg Løkkeberg) hands over a letter to the police claiming Helmer obtained his position through foul play.
At the same time he announces his engagement to the bishop's daughter, Agnes (Anne-Lise Tangstad), who sides with him against her own father.
Helmer is left with his wife, who is torn between her love for her husband and her Christian faith.
Eventually it emerges that Helmer's secretary had written the anonymous letters slandering Tornkvist.