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Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director.
He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964).
Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, and his wife, Inger Marie (née Olsen). He was named after his adoptive father, but in accordance with Danish practice, there is no "Senior" or "Junior" added to their names to distinguish them from each other.
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10 December 2015
French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s.
31 December 1915
Following some dodgy dealings, stockbroker Saccard is determined to pull himself out of the gutter and regain is reputation.
08 September 1916
On his way home from a business trip, the young detective Karl Frank meets the siblings Kuno and Margit von Krall.
03 October 1922
A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death.
21 April 1928
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior.
07 February 1922
A look at various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
06 May 1932
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him.
09 January 1955
The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself.
15 April 1926
Tore, son of a poor farmer, loves Berit, daughter of a rich one, but she's promised to another man whom she does not love and thus refuses to marry.
08 August 1989
Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.
13 November 1943
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft.
11 June 1994
Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud.
19 December 1964
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her.
08 May 1916
The titular villain is an infamous international criminal, Mrs. Valentin Kempel, known as “The Predator Spider” due to her habit of ensnaring innocent victims in her web.
17 July 2022
Documentary about the making and reception of Carl Th. Dreyer's final movie, "Gertrud."
31 January 1972
“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, thao
14 November 1919
1919 film by August Blom
15 January 1917
The notorious criminal Barra is approached by Agent Frank for a profitable collaboration. The brand new designs of a revolutionary internal combustion engine is the target.
01 February 1919
A judge sees his illegitimate daughter face trial for infanticide. He's certain that she will receive the death sentence.
20 April 1949
Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy.
22 April 1947
he laws governing old age pensions in Denmark have recently been consolidated, and the rates of pensions improved.
26 September 1924
A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.
15 December 1947
Documentary exploring Denmark’s ancient churches.
15 November 1920
The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.
04 October 1920
A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
28 December 1995
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors.
05 October 1925
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
22 March 1950
A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge.
12 May 1948
A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away.
07 October 1946
Sharply critical film about rural water pollution in the Jutland countryside district of medical officer Jens Jensen.
01 March 1968
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols.
23 September 1947
A Danish PSA urging people to see the doctor before it's too late to cure their cancer.
11 March 1942
The Mothers' Aid is a state-funded institution with branches all over Denmark. Erna, a young pregnant woman, has asked a doctor to carry out an abortion, but instead he advised her to go to the Mothers' Aid for consultation.
14 August 1914
Martha, a war widow, finds a new zest for life when she meets the noble Captain von Tilling. They marry, but before long he, too, is called to war.
16 May 1954
The castle of Krogen, built c. 1420, is inside the later castle of Kronborg. Reconstruction of Kronborg gave a chance to study early castles.
14 November 1966
A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died.
27 March 1970
Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was never produced.
09 April 1918
A young bank clerk Karl Fribert falls hopelessly in love with the celebrated operetta primadonna Lydia, and faithfully and chivalrously puts his deepest feelings on display, following the goal of his love so vehemently that he does not turn back from either theft or murder.
23 March 1945
Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarising the work of an old professor.
01 November 2006
I made this little film portrait of Dreyer on the 17th of September 1965, in New York. He said he was very interested in what I was trying to do in the possibilities of film portraiture.
14 October 2020
Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.
21 September 1909
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set foot on the North Pole.
22 February 1950
The film shows Kronborg as it must have looked to Shakespeare when he visited the castle, if indeed he did, three centuries ago.
