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Carl Th. Dreyer
Bibliography / The Word
Dreyer’s concept of abstraction / Vlada Petri. In: Sight & Sound, vol. 44, no. 2, 1975, s. 108-112.
Reception / Two People
Two People premiered in Sweden at Stockholm’s Röda Kvärn cinema on 23 March 1945.
Plot summary / Gertrud
The story of a great woman, the passionate Gertrud, a former well-known singer, now married to an eminent lawyer.
Dvd / Day of Wrath
Released by BFI, 2015Blu-ray box set
Shoot / The Danish Village Church
As Preben Frank’s detailed accounts for the film show, the crew began work on 4 July 1946 and completed it in mid-October, though the lion’s share of the exteriors were in the can by 1 August.
Reception / Water from the Land
The film never went into distribution and thus was never screened to the public.
Dvd / Gertrud
Background / Shakespeare and Kronborg
When Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet had its world premiere in May 1948, a Danish journalist realised, to his chagrin, that a Danish film had never been made about Kronborg, Hamlet’s castle.
Shoot / The Fight Against Cancer
Two different budgets for the film have been preserved, one of 19,505 kroner and one of 20,500 kroner.
Shoot / The Storstrøm Bridge
The shoot started on or around 1 July 1948 and lasted an estimated 10-14 days.
Comments / Thorvaldsen
Dreyer expresses his intention with the film in a letter to Ib Koch-Olsen of 12 Nov.
Background / A Castle within a Castle
When Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet had its world premiere in May 1948, a Danish journalist realised, to his chagrin, that a Danish film had never been made about Kronborg, Hamlet’s castl