Gertrud
Summary:
Nine years after the release of his acknowledged masterpiece, Ordet, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer offered this a story of an individual in search of a measure of personal peace and serenity, which proved to be his last completed film. Gertrud Kanning, like the maid Joan in Dreyer's best-known film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, is a woman in isolation. On the eve o... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Nina Pens Rode - (Gertrud Kanning)
Ebbe Rode - (Gabriel Lidman)
Axel Gebuhr - (Kanning)
Bendt Rothe - (Gustav Kenning)
William Knoblauch - (Jansson)
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Review:
It's difficult to imagine why antipathy initially greeted what proved to be Carl Theodor Dreyer's last film. Granted, Gertrud did not have the ambitious scope of Ordet or the intensity of either Vredens Dag (Day of Wrath) or La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. Perhaps by 1964 Dreyer's style was considered stodgy, as it involved long ta... Continue >>
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