Synopsis : A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems—first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman. Title : The Parson's Widow (1920) Original Title : Prästänkan Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer Duration : 80 min. Subtitles : Spanish, Portuguese Card in English Genres : Drama BONUS 2 Shrots : De Naede Faergen, 1948 + Thorvaldsen, 1949 Countries : Denmark
Synopsis : Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag) is set in 1623 Denmark, where Anne Pedersdotter (Lisbeth Movin), the second wife of a Danish pastor, grows to loathe her husband for his self-asceticism and instead falls in love with the minister's son - with whom she spends an inordinate amount of time. Locals overhear her wishing aloud for her husband's death; when he dies of a stroke not long after, she is accused of witchcraft, a charge taken seriously enough to be punishable by death. Eventually, the poor woman is tortured and traumatized to such a point that she actually believes she is a witch - and she gives in to being burned at the stake. Yet Dreyer then shifts the perspective from internalized - illustrating the woman's paralyzing fear - to externalized, a point of view that enables the director to depict his subject's spiritual purification. Even allowing for the aura of raw terror, Dreyer never loses sight of the eroticism inherent in the concept of witchcraft. Based on a play by Wiers Jensen, Day of Wrath was filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and not released abroad until after the war, and the director reportedly had to flee his native country when he angered the government with the film's political content. Hal Erickson Title : Day of Wrath (1943) Original Title : Vredens dag Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer Duration : 97 min. Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese Audio Monoaural in Danish Genres : Drama Countries : Denmark
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish
filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the conflict between internalized
personal faith and organized religion. Dreyer sets the drama in a
conservative, super-pious Danish town, where widower Morten Borgen
(Henrik Malberg) -- the father of three boys -- cuts against the grain
of the community with his constant heretical doubt. One of his sons,
Mikkel Borgen (Emil Hass Christensen), is entangled in an interfaith
romance with a fundamentalist's daughter, while the second, Anders
Borgen (Cay Kristiansen), is an agnostic, and the third, Johannes Borgen
(Preben Leerdorff-Rye) -- a devotee of Søren Kirkegaard -- believes
that he actually is Jesus Christ -- a conviction ridiculed by
almost everyone as pure insanity. Also known as The Word, Ordet was the
only film that Dreyer made in the 1950s. The author of the play on which
the film was based (and which was previously filmed in 1943) was Kaj
Munk, a Danish pastor murdered by the Nazis for daring to announce his
fidelity to Christ over Hitleer. Hal Erickson Title : The Word (1955) Original title : Ordet Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer Duration : 125 min. Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese Dialogue in Danish Genres : Drama, Spirituality & Philosophy Countries : Denmark
Synopsis : Nine years after the release of his acknowledged masterpiece, Ordet, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer offered this a story of an individual in search of a measure of personal peace and serenity, which proved to be his last completed film. Gertrud Kanning, like the maid Joan in Dreyer's best-known film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, is a woman in isolation. On the eve of her husband's appointment to a cabinet minister post, she announces that she is leaving their loveless marriage. But her younger lover Erland Jansson, a concert pianist, is more interested in keeping their affair illicit than in continuing it in the open. Gertrud's old lover, the poet Gabriel Lidman, offers more than his friendship, but she holds back from turning to him, instead choosing to live out her life in solitude rather than compromise with love again. Adapted from a 1920s play by Hjalmar Soberberg, Gertrud plays out in long takes, with few close-ups and exterior scenes. Though initial critical reaction to the film was largely unfavorable, its reputation has steadily grown, especially considered in the context of Dreyer's long career. Tom Wiener Title : Gertrud (1964) Directed : C.T. Dreyer Duration : 115 min. dialogue in Danish Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese Genres : Drama Country : Denmark
Synopsis : Vampyr ranks in many circles as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, the story concerns a mysterious series of killings, committed by a crone of a female vampire (Henriette Gerard). The story is told through the eyes of a holiday reveller (Julian West), who at first scoffs at the notion of a supernatural murderer, but who is eventually forced to believe that there are more things in heaven and earth. Dreyer offers few explanations of the phenomena he presents on screen: the strange and frightening happenings just happen, as casually as any everyday occurrence. As was his custom, Dreyer mostly uses nonprofessionals in his cast. Vampyr is available in a wide variety of severely edited and duped versions. Hal Erickson Title : Vampyr Ano : 1932 Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer Duration : 71 min. Original card : English Subtitles : Spanish, Portuguese Genres : Mystery, Fantasy, Horror Country : Germany, Denmark, France, United States
Synopsis : In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor. Title : Leaves Out of the Book of Satan Original title : Blade af Satans bog (1920) Directed : Carl Theodor Dreyer Duration : 2 h 47 min Genre : Drama Country : Denmark
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