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Gertrud

Carl Th. Dreyer

 
Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set (Criterion DVD)

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  • Denmark
  • 1964
  • 119 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.33:1
  • Danish
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  • Spine #127

SYNOPSIS: 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.

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Cast

Gertrud Kanning Nina Pens Rode
Gustav KanningBendt Rothe
Gabriel LidmanEbbe Rode
Erland JanssonBaard Owe
Axel NygenAxel Strøbye

Credits

DirectorCarl Th. Dreyer
ScreenplayCarl Th. Dreyer
From the play byHjalmar Söderberg
ProducerJørgen Nielsen
CinematographyHenning Bendtsen and Arne Abrahamsen
EditingEdith Schlüssel
SongsGrethe Risbjerg Thomsen
Production designKai Rasch
MusicJørgen Jersild
SoundKnud Kristensen

Disc Features

  • New digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Henning Bendtsen, and enhanced for 16×9 televisions
  • Deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skødt Jensen’s documentary Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier, with actors Baard Owe and Axel Strøbye
  • Archival footage from the time of Gertrud’s production
  • Stills gallery
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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Gertrud

By Phillip LopateAugust 20, 2001

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 Read more »

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Gertrud and Light in August

By Jonathan RosenbaumOctober 26, 2010

For several decades now, William Faulkner’s Light in August (1932) and Carl Dreyer’s Gertrud (1964) have been major touchstones for me—not only separately but also in some mysterious relation Read more »