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Dreyer’s script for 'Master of the House' has been digitized and is now on the website! Watch the script in Flash and zoom in on the pages to examine Dreyer’s handwritten corrections and notes.

Dreyer’s script for ”The President” has been digitized and is now on the website! Watch the script in Flash and zoom in on the pages to examine Dreyer’s handwritten corrections and notes.

Dreyer’s script for ”Gertrud” has been digitized and is now on the website! Watch the different versions of the script in Flash and zoom in on the pages to examine Dreyer’s handwritten corrections and notes.

The editors of the Carl Th. Dreyer website wish You a joyful Christmas and a happy 2012.

Lisbeth Movin, who played the dominant leading part in Day of Wrath (1943), died on 7 November – 94 years old.

With kind permission from professor Jan Olsson and Wallflower Press the Dreyer website is able to present Olsson’s elaborate article on Dreyer's Swedish film Two People (1945), published in The Cinema of Scandinavia (2005, ed. Tytti Soila). In connection with this presentation we have scanned the original script which is now accessible on the website. It counts more than 300 pages with Dreyer's personal notes and remarks.

From Fridag 16 September through Sunday 25 September 2011 'The Passion Project' returns to New York’s 3LD Art & Technology Center. Prior to Touring to Regina, Canada. 'The Passion Project' is a 40-­‐minute intersection of performance and film that explodes Carl Theodor Dreyer’s immortal 1928 silent film classic The Passion of Joan of Arc into three dimensions, placing the audience inside the film, sitting next Joan.

The relationship between the language of the body and the spoken word is a subject that preoccupies the Brazilian researcher Laura Erber. For three month she has been doing research in the Dreyer archive at the Danish Film Institute.

We are happy to include on the website this thorough article by Tag Gallagher on Dreyer’s visual style using illustrative examples from Day of Wrath, Ordet, and not least Gertrud.