Ordet
Summary:
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the conflict between internalized personal faith and organized religion. Dreyer sets the drama in a conservative, super-pious Danish town, where widower Morten Borgen (Henrik Malberg) -- the father of three boys -- cuts against the grain of the community with his con... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Henrik Malberg - (Morten Borgen)
Emil Hass Christensen - (Mikkel Borgen)
Cay Kristiansen - (Anders Borgen)
Preben Leerdorff-Rye - (Johannes Borgen)
Hanne Aagesen - (Karen)
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Review:
His return to features after a decade of documentary shorts, Ordet (1955) is one of Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer's most intense examinations of faith and religion. The second film version of Kaj Munk's play, Dreyer crisply lays out Ordet's different permutations of religious belief in the opening search for delusional theolog... Continue >>
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