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Carl Th. Dreyer
Background / Good Mothers
In 1940, Ebbe Neergaard published En Filminstruktørs Arbejde ("A Film Director’s Work"), the first ever Dreyer biography.
Bibliography / Good Mothers
L’aide aux mères. In: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, no. 335, 1984, s. 71-79.
Plot / Day of Wrath
Anne is a quiet, fearful young woman married to a much older pastor, Absalon, whose mother does not consider Anne worthy of her son and takes every opportunity to humiliate her.
Bibliography / Day of Wrath
Dies irae. In: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma, no. 100, 1970, s. 7-43.
Plot / Two people
Dr. Arne Lundell, a brilliant young assistant in a mental hospital, is accused of plagiarising his thesis from a work published simultaneously by his superior, Professor Zander.
Jan Olsson: Two people
With kind permission from Professor Jan Olsson and publisher Yoram Allon / Wallflower Press, the Dreyer website is able to present Olsson’s elaborate article on 'Two People', published in 'The…
Bibliography / Two People
Carl Th. Dreyers ”Två människor”: en källkritisk dokumentation av bakgrund och polemik / Jan Olsson.
AB Svensk Filmindustri
Dreyer made two Swedish films 23 years apart, both for AB Svensk Filmindustri. The first production, in 1920, went smoothly. The second production, in 1943, was fraught with problems and…
Dreyer’s Jesus – A Jew among Jews
Dreyer’s Jesus-film—to judge from the excellence of the screenplay—could have added to posterity’s invaluable works of art. The film was never realized, but Dreyer had very clear intentions of…
Life is truly a miracle
The theologian Jes Nysten in this essay considers "Day of Wrath", "Ordet" and "Gertrud" as steppingstones of sorts to Dreyer’s ultimate life’s work – his never-realised film about Jesus of Nazareth…
Pissing into the Well
In 1946, Carl Th. Dreyer's short film Vandet paa Landet ("The Water in the Country") was shelved because it was feared that it might harm Danish agriculture's image abroad. The film was intended to…
From Dreyer to von Trier
The two great Danish filmmakers, Carl Th. Dreyer and Lars von Trier, share an artistic kinship. Women suffer, are tortured and burned at the stake, but even down to individual shots, some of von…