Themes Biography Collaborators Workplaces Themes Working method Film style Life is truly a miracle 22. dec 2017. The theologian Jes Nysten in this essay considers "Day of Wrath", "Ordet" and "Gertrud" as steppingstones of sorts to Dreyer’s ultimate life’s work – his never-realised film about Jesus of Nazareth. From Dreyer to von Trier The two great Danish filmmakers, Carl Th. Dreyer and Lars von Trier, share an artistic kinship. Women suffer, are tortured and burned at the stake, but even down to individual shots, some of von Pissing into the Well: Dreyer, Film Propaganda and Cognitive Theory In 1946, Carl Th. Dreyer's short film Vandet paa Landet ("The Water in the Country") was shelved because it was feared that it might harm Danish agriculture's image abroad. The film was intended to ... But am I loved? Carl Dreyer’s film "Gertrud" created an uproar, stirred emotions and loosened pens when it opened in 1964. The reviews were scathing, slamming both the film’s style and its content, a woman pursuing Dreyer’s Jesus – A Jew among Jews Dreyer’s Jesus-film—to judge from the excellence of the screenplay—could have added to posterity’s invaluable works of art. The film was never realized, but Dreyer had very clear intentions of An Unrealised Lifelong Dream - Dreyer's Jesus Film Carl Th. Dreyer’s "Jesus film" may well be the most widely discussed never-made film in film history. From a close reading of Dreyer’s screenplay, theologian Jes Nysten offers an in-depth look at