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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…

Reception / Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath premiered on 13 November 1943 at the World Cinema in Copenhagen.

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.

Comments / Vampyr

In a reply letter of 27 Oct 1961 to Jean Sémolué’s question, "Comment faut-il expliquer l’orthographe de Vampyr (et non Vampire)?,” Dreyer made the following statement about the film’s title,

DVD / The Passion of Joan of Arc

Releases

Released by Criterion, 1999.

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.

Dialogue in English / Water from the Land

D is the doctor. C is the Copenhagener. I is the engineer.

Reception / Good Mothers

Good Mothers was shown in theatres before the feature Vi kunne ha’ det saa rart!

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.

Background / The Fight Against Cancer

On 1 August 1944, Ernst Carlsen and Ejvind Møller of the Danish Cancer Society wrote the Ministerial Film Committee, saying that they would like to see a film about fighting cancer. The initial…

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.

Bibliography / The Danish Village Church

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