Film director, screenwriter, cinema manager. Born Copenhagen, 3 February 1889, died 20 March 1968. Director of 14 features and 8 shorts. Married Ebba...
Carl Theodor Dreyer is the most important director in Danish cinema. In international film history, too, he ranks as one of the greatest artists...
Dreyer in his youth was a real daredevil. Obsessed with technology and speed, he was among the first people to fly as a passenger in an aeroplane...
Dreyer’s road to film went through journalism. He began his working life as a young reporter in 1909/1910-1915, before going into the film business...
Before he directed his first film, Dreyer spent five years in Nordisk Film’s script department, assessing submitted manuscripts and also doing some...
In 1952, when Carl Th. Dreyer took over from Hilmar Clausen as manager of the Dagmar Teateret cinema on Jernbanegade, Copenhagen, he also got his...
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...
Every year on Dreyer’s birthday, the Carl Th. Dreyer Memorial Fund awards a prize primarily to a young film director, or other artist working in film...
Literature about the life and work of Carl Theodor Dreyer is abundant. The first book about him was publicized in 1940 in Denmark. Since, a great...