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Plot summary / The Parson's Widow

Based on a novella by the Norwegian writer Kristofer Janson (itself taken from an actual event of the early Seventeenth century), this enchanting film tells the story of a young parson who preaches

Reception / The Parson's Widow

The Parson's Widow got a rather mixed reception in the Danish papers.

Plot summary / Love One Another

The story is set in the early part of the 20th Century. The protagonist, Hanne-Liebe, leaves her home town to escape from the anti-Semitic harassment of the local community.

Dvd / Love One Another

Releases

Blu-ray Disc
Released by Danish Film Institute, 2011

Based on / Once Upon a Time

Holger Drachmann: Once Upon a Time 

What exactly did Dreyer see in Drachmann’s national-romantic, lightweight fairy play? Several possible theories have been proposed.

Shoot / Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time was shot over the summer of 1922, while the actors were on holiday from the theatres.

Plot / Michael

An elderly painter, Claude Zoret, adores the young pupil he has adopted first as a model and then as his son.

Shoot / Michael

A Danish newspaper reports that the film cost half a million gold marks. The film was shot in the period from November 1923 to June 1924.

Plot / Master of the house

Ida is a perfect wife and mother, but her husband Victor finds fault with everything she does.

Dvd / Master of the House

Releases
 

The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

Released by BFI, 2015
Blu-ray box set

Based on / The Bride of Glomdal

JACOB BREDA BULL. Bull was a theologian who became a successful writer on the strength of his fondness for describing the lives and conditions of Norwegian peasants. His works are characterised by…

Reception / The Bride of Glomdal

The Danish critics are generally positive about the film, though they do not devote much column space to it.