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A Criminal's Diary

(Alexander Christian, DK, 1916)

Money

(Karl Mantzius, DK, 1915)

Lisbeth Movin

Lisbeth Movin plays the leading role of Anne Pedersdotter in "Day of Wrath" (1943).

Sophus Madsen

Sophus Madsen produced "Once Upon a Time" (1922) and imported "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) to the Paladsteatret cinema in Copenhagen.

Decla-Bioscop

The legendary producer Erich Pommer was behind the Decla-Bioscop company, which was founded in 1916 as Decla-Film-Gesellschaft Holz & Co. The last part of the name refers to co-founder Fritz Holz,…

The script consultant

Before he directed his first film, Dreyer spent five years in Nordisk Film’s script department, assessing submitted manuscripts and also doing some writing himself, mainly intertitles and programme…

The Carl Th. Dreyer Award

Every year the Carl Th. Dreyer Memorial Fund awards a prize primarily to a young film director, or other artist working in film, in recognition of an outstanding artistic performance. The fund is…

The Dreyer Family

In 1982, the film historian Martin Drouzy published the first major biography of Dreyer and his life, Carl Th. Dreyer født Nilsson (Carl Th. Dreyer, born Nilsson). Dreyer’s daughter, Gunni, the…

The sets for 'Jeanne D' Arc'

In the years around 1990, art historian Britta Martensen-Larsen organised an exhibition about La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. It was presented on several occasions in Paris, and later at the Nikolaj…

Based on / Vampyr

SHERIDAN LE FANU: 'IN A GLASS DARKLY'. For his horror film, Vampire, Dreyer was inspired by a collection of short stories by the Irish writer Le Fanu, though he also cast a glance at Bram Stoker’s…

Reception / Vampyr

In Berlin, where it had its world premiere, the film got a mixed reception.

Background / Good Mothers

In 1940, Ebbe Neergaard published En Filminstruktørs Arbejde ("A Film Director’s Work"), the first ever Dreyer biography.