GERTRUDE

Dreyer's final film was this study of a woman and her search for a perfect life, an ideal love, and a man who will totally devote himself to her. In this pursuit, she abandons her husband for a musician, leaves him, rejects the marriage proposals of three men in succession and finally finds herself living as a recluse in Paris. Dreyer shot the film as a tight series of duologs in static long takes using dialogue and emotions to create a film of exceptional intensity.

Directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer. Script by Dreyer. Photo by Henning Bendtsen, Arne Aljrahamsen. Music by Jorgen Jersild. With Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode. Baard Owe, Axel Strobye.

Denmark, 1964. 116 minutes.Danish dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881 -158-3
$29.95

PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
La Passion De Jeanne D'Arc

The story of the French maid whose trial and execution as a heretic aroused the French into action against the British. Dreyer used actual documents from the 18-month long trial to write his script. The action, however, was condensed into one day to create an intense view of Joan’s 29 examinations. Shot almost entirely in close-up and medium-shot, the film builds to a devastating climax as Jeanne is burned at the stake.

“The agonized face of Falconetti, in her only film, burns itself on the mind.” -Holt’s Foreign Film Guide

Directed by Carl Dreyer. Script by Carl Dreyer, Joseph Delteil. Photo by Rudolph Mate. With Renee Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon, Antonin Artaud.

France 1928. 119 minutes. Silent film, added copyrighted music score and English inter-title cards.
ISBN 1-55881-154-0
$19.95

VAMPYR
The Strange Adventure Of David Gray

Dreyer's early suspense work based on the vampire legend. A young traveller, arrives at a remote castle where a girl lies unconscious after being attacked by a Vampire. Of special note is that the horror is created, in large part, by suggestion rather than a heavy sledgehammer approach, In the most famous sequence of the film, the man dreams of being buried alive and it's all shown from his viewpoint!

“Dreyer went far beyond the purely Gothic, creating a horror film that makes most others pale into insignificance.”—Holt’s Foreign Film Guide.

Directed by Carl Dreyer. Script; Carl Dreyer, Christen Jul; based on a short story by Sheridan Le Fanu. Photo; Rudolph Mati, Louis Nee. Music; Wolfgang Zeller. Cast; Julian West, Henriette Gerard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko.

France 1932 68 minute subtitled
ISBN 1-55881-155-9
$19.95

ORDET
The Word

In a remote village, a stern father prohibits his son from marrying a girl with whose father he has religious differences. Discord and blind hatred culminate in a terrible tragedy but the characters are redeemed in a final, quintessential Dreyeresque, expression of spiritual optimism.

“A tale of a miraculous resurrection brought about by human love could have been pious, sentimental and even desirable --Dreyer makes it into an enriching experience.” --Holt’s Foreign Film Guide.

Director; Carl Dreyer. Script; Carl Dreyer. Photo; Henning Bendtsen Music;Poul Schierbeck. Cast; Henrik Malberg: Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Caj Kristiansen, Birgitte Federspiel, Ejner Federspiel.

Denmark.1955. 126 minutes. Original dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-157-5
$29.95

THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE
Thou Shall Honour Thy Wife / Orig: Du Skal Aere Din Hustru

A woman's life is wasted as she pampers & spoils her husband (a typical male chauvinist politely described in the film as "a spoiled husband") who continually browbeats his wife, children and even the poor canary bird. The housekeeper hatches a plot to teach the tyrant a lesson. One of the earliest films to deal with women's second class status.

This film has previously been available in the edited versions running as little as 100 minutes. This NYFA edition is the complete 140 minute version .
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Directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer. Cast: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellmose.

Denmark: 1925. 140 minutes. Silent film with added copyrighted music score and restored titlecards.
ISBN 1-55881-153-2
$29.95

THE DAY OF WRATH
Vredens Dag

In 17th-century Denmark, a dying witch curses a pastor and his wife. The couple descends into adultery, madness and murder. The wife is finally accused of witchcraft.

"This psychological masterpiece is the expression of a single personality, built up from Dreyer's script, choice of camera angles editing, and his control of every nuance of performance; it is one of the most complexly moving films ever made."--Pauline Kael.

Directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer. Script; Dreyer, Foul Knudsen, Mogen Skot-Hansen. Photo; Karl Andersson. Music; Poul Schierbeck. Cast; Lisbeth Moven, Thorkild Roose.

Denmark,. 1943, 110 minutes. Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-156-7
$29.95

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