Denmark
1964
119 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
Danish
127
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.
| Gertrud Kanning | Nina Pens Rode |
| Gustav Kanning | Bendt Rothe |
| Gabriel Lidman | Ebbe Rode |
| Erland Jansson | Baard Owe |
| Axel Nygen | Axel Strøbye |
| Director | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| Screenplay | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| From the play by | Hjalmar Söderberg |
| Producer | Jørgen Nielsen |
| Cinematography | Henning Bendtsen and Arne Abrahamsen |
| Editing | Edith Schlüssel |
| Songs | Grethe Risbjerg Thomsen |
| Production Design | Kai Rasch |
| Music | Jørgen Jersild |
| Sound | Knud Kristensen |
The final, resolutely unfashionable film from grand old master Carl Theodor Dreyer, Gertrud was met with dismissal in 1964 and continues to be somewhat overlooked even today. But this week, Jonathan Rosenbaum reminds us of its unique beauties and unconventional approach to narrative and . . .
There is no other movie like Gertrud. It exists in its own bright, one-entry category, idiosyncratic, serenely stubborn, and sublime.When it opened in 1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s last film, one of his greatest, generated a scandal from which it has never completely divested . . .
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