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Day of Wrath
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Ordet
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Gertrud
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Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier
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Day of Wrath
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor, falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results. Exquisitely photographed and passionately acted, Day of Wrath remains an intense, unforgettable experience.
Ordet
A farmer’s family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love—one child believes he’s Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist’s daughter. Putting the lie to the term “organized religion,” Ordet (The Word) is a challenge to simple facts and dogmatic orthodoxy. Layering multiple stories of faith and rebellion, Dreyer’s adaptation of Kaj Munk’s play quietly builds towards a shattering, miraculous climax.
Gertrud
Carl Dreyer’s last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy, individual will and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love—but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Always the stylistic innovator, Dreyer employs long takes and theatrical staging to concentrate on Nina Pens Rode’s sublime portrayal of the proud and courageous Gertrud.
Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook. Through interviews, historical writings, and rare archival footage, a portrait of Dreyer emerges: an austere perfectionist, yes, but also a passionate man possessing a genuine sense of humor. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this in-depth study of Dreyer’s life and work for the first time on home video.
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- Deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skjodt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer-My Metier, with actors Lisbeth Movin and Preben Lerdorff Rye
- Deleted footage of an interview from Torben Skjodt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer-My Metier, with actress Brigitte Federspiel
- Deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skodt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer-My Metier, with actors Baard Owe and Axel Strøbye
- Rare interview footage and archival material
- Stills gallery
- Stills gallery
- Archival footage from the time of Gertrud's production
- Theatrical trailer
- Insert featuring an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Insert featuring an essay by Chris Fujiwara
- Stills gallery
- Booklet featuring biographies by Edvin Kau, reprint of a 1943 essay by Carl Th. Dreyer, a note on the film by Torben Skjødt Jensen, and a reprint of an interview with Torben Skjødt Jensen with a filmography
- Insert featuring an essay by Phillip Lopate