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Background / The Danish Village Church

Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky.

Bibliography / The Danish Village Church

Landsbykirken (The Danish village church) / Tony Rayns. In: Monthly Film Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 512, 1976, s. 204-205.

Reception / They Caught the Ferry

The film caused a stir because it had a surprise ending and because it showed glimpses of the great director’s originality in what was a government traffic-propaganda film.

Perilous Performance: Dreyer's Unity of Danger and Beauty

Carl Th. Dreyer has been called everything from misunderstood genius, to reserved bourgeois director, to “The Tyrannical Dane” as Paul Moor put it in his 1951 article in which, consequently, he also…

Bibliography / The Rebuilding of Rønne and Nexø

Kortfilm som redningsplanke / Lars Bo Kimergaard. In: Visse tendenser i filmvidenskaben: festskrift til Martin Drouzy / redigeret af Anne Jerslev.

Plot / The Word

Morten Borgen, a Grundtvigian, owns the biggest farm in his West Jutland parish. His middle son, Johannes, has lost his mind and thinks he is Jesus.

Plot summary / The Bride of Glomdal

Tore, son of a poor farmer, loves Berit, daughter of a rich one, but she is promised by her father to another man whom she does not love and whom she refuses to marry.

Plot / The Passion of Joan of Arc

La passion de Jeanne d'Arc is the story of a religious saint who sacrifices her life for her faith and becomes part of a political game.

DVD / The Passion of Joan of Arc

Releases

Released by Criterion, 1999.

The different versions of 'Jeanne D'Arc'

Dreyer’s masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc had a dramatic life after its premiere in 1928. What follows is a story of fires, painstaking reconstruction, disappearance, various reconstruction…

Plot / Vampyr

A young man, Allan Gray, arrives at a countryside inn. At the very same evening an unknown man pays him a visit and asks him for help to save a young girl who is in great danger.

Some notes on the restoration of Dreyer's Vampyr (1932)

Curator at Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Martin Koerber, and head of L'imagine ritrovato laboratory in Bologna, Nicola Mazzanti, finished a restoration of Vampyr in 1999. Martin Koerbers notes on…