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...
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...
Carl Dreyer’s film Gertrud created an uproar, stirred emotions and loosened pens when it opened in 1964. The reviews were scathing, slamming both the...
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...
Carl Th. Dreyer’s "Jesus film" may well be the most widely discussed never-made film in film history. From a close reading of Dreyer’s screenplay...