Direction: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Maria Falconetti · Eugene Silvain · Maurice Schutz · Michel Simon

Synopsis The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) depicts the harrowing final days of Joan of Arc, the young French heroine condemned by her English captors. Focused on her trial and interrogation by ecclesiastical judges, the film captures Joan's unwavering faith...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Henrik Malberg · Emil Hass Christensen · Preben Lerdorff Rye · Cay Kristiansen

Synopsis Ordet (The Word) (1955) is a profound drama set in rural Denmark, exploring themes of faith, family, and miracles. The story revolves around the Borgen family, whose members grapple with differing beliefs and personal struggles. Morten, the patriarch, is a...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Thorkild Roose · Lisbeth Movin · Sigrid Neiiendam · Preben Lerdorff Rye

Synopsis Denmark, 1623. An old woman curses the local clergyman and his family as she is burned at the stake in this sobering and ghastly study of religious fanaticism.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Nina Pens Rode · Bendt Rothe · Ebbe Rode · Baard Owe

Synopsis Adapted from Hjalmar Soderberg's 1919 play of the same title, GERTRUD tells the tale of a woman's search for idealized love and spiritual fulfillment, which takes her beyond the confines of a passionless marriage through a series of affairs that...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Julian West · Sybille Schmitz · Henriette Gérard · Albert Bras

Synopsis A traveler obsessed with the supernatural visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Mathilde Nielsen · Johannes Meyer · Astrid Holm · Petrine Sonne

Synopsis Ida is a perfect wife and mother, but her husband Victor finds fault with everything she does. She bears it all patiently until Victor's old nanny, Mads, unable to stand it any longer, persuades Ida to hit back by leaving...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Walter Slezak · Max Auzinger · Nora Gregor · Robert Garrison

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Georg Rydeberg · Wanda Rothgardt · Gabriel Alw · Stig Olin

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Greta Almroth · Einar Röd · Hildur Carlberg · Olav Aukrust

Synopsis A young parson wins a plum parish in 17th century Norway, but is obliged to marry the widow of his deceased predecessor and pretend his attractive young fiancee is his sister.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Helge Nissen · Halvard Hoff · Jacob Texiere · Hallander Helleman

Synopsis Satan appears during four different time periods to claim a soul. As a Pharisee he tempts Judas to betray Christ; as a Grand Inquisitor in 16th Spain; as a fervent revolutionary in Paris of 1793; and as a defrocked Red...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Richard Christensen · Christian Engelstoft · Hallander Helleman · Halvard Hoff

Synopsis The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, and is rather sure that she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn't want...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Richard Boleslawski · Vladimir Gajdarov · Johannes Meyer · Polina Pickowska

Synopsis Living in the Jewish ghetto of a Russian village, young Hanna-Liebe (Polina Pickowska) must abandon her friendship with the Gentile boy Fedja (Richard Boleslawski). When she falls in love with Sascha (Thorleif Reiss), another Gentile, she follows him to St....

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Einar Sissener · Tove Tellback · Stub Wiberg · Harald Stormoen

Synopsis Sweeping lyricism infuses the whole of "Glomdalsbruden", which Dreyer made in Norway. Tore, son of a poor farmer, loves Berit, daughter of a rich one, but she is promised to another man whom she does not love and whom she...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Joseph Koch

Synopsis A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Clara Pontoppidan · Svend Methling · Peter Jerndorff · Hakon Ahnfelt-Rønne

Synopsis Once Upon a Time, adapted from a national-romantic play by the Danish writer Holger Drachmann, is set in a fairytale past. The jolly old king of the rococo land Illyria lets his beautiful, but capricious, daughter have her way in...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis This film was made by the dane Carl Theodor Dreyer in 1949 and is a short documentary about equally danish sculpturor Thorvaldsen.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis Carl Th. Dreyer's beautiful documentary uses no words to show different aspects of this beautiful bridge in Denmark. It is one of over a dozen state-commissioned documentary shorts made by the famous director.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis Landsbykirken [The Village Church] is a documentary on the 800 year old Danish village churches. Landsbykirken was made as an educational movie. It was therefore constructed to be very pedagogical so it looks a little formalistic. The movie starts out...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis A Danish PSA urging people to see the doctor before it's too late to cure their cancer.

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis Sharply critical film about rural water pollution in the Jutland countryside district of medical officer Jens Jensen. Situations of everyday water use are illustrated by graphic representations of a well and surrounding soil layers. A new well is correctly constructed...