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Carl Theodor Dreyer - Special Edition Box Set - This 3 disc Danish dvd set includes the films Ordet, Gertrud and Day of Wrath, 3 classic Danish films.
Ordet - 1955 Danish film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Ordet is about faith. It may be the most breathtaking exploration of religious experience ever filmed. Part of a Carl Theodor Dreyer Special Edition Box Set which includes Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud, and Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier - Criterion Collection. A Danish farm family struggles with misfortune. One son is disturbed and assumes he is Christ, another wants to wed the daughter of a family with different religious beliefs. A married daughter dies and her resurrection proves to be the healing catalyst that brings the people together in faith. Stars Henrik Malberg and Emil Haas Christensen. 126 min.
Day of Wrath - 1943 film directed by Carl Dreyer. Somber and brilliant study of
superstition and repression - part of a Carl Theodor Dreyer Special
Edition Box Set which includes Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud, and Carl
Th. Dreyer - My Metier - Criterion Collection. Elderly woman, burned
for witchcraft, casts a spell on a pastor. Later, his wife becomes
obsessed with her stepson and is accused of witchcraft herself. Somber
and brilliant study of superstition and repression. Stars Thorkid Roose
and Lisbeth Movin. Rated PG, 110 minutes.
Gertrud - 1964 Danish film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. In the elegant world
of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a
lover, the composer Erland Jansson. Part of a Carl Theodor Dreyer
Special Edition Box Set which includes Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud, and
Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier - Criterion collection. In the elegant
world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and
takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson. When he also fails to live
up to her idealistic standards, she leaves him and imposes on herself a
kind of exile of the heart. In flashbacks and in conversations laced
with memories, we also learn of her adolescence. Stars Nina Pens Rode,
Bendt Rothe and Ebba Rode. 119 minutes, b/w, unrated.
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