THE FILMS OF CARL TH. DREYER

Carl Theodor Dreyer was the uncompromising artist par excellence, a filmmaker whose artistic ambition and perseverance in achieving it, directly affected his output, a rather slim filmography - 14 features in 45 years. Though they had no commercial success upon their initial release, and were the subject of controversy and disagreement among critics, films such as LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC (1928), VAMPYR (1932), ORDET (THE WORD), (1955) and GERTRUD (1964) have long been considered among the outstanding works of film history.

GME distributes DVD editions of the following Carl Th. Dreyer films:

CARL TH. DREYER: LOVE ONE ANOTHER (ELSKER HVERANDRE) / THE BRIDE OF GLOMDAL (GLOMDALSBRUDEN) 

Carl Th. Dreyer (Germany & Norway)

LOVE ONE ANOTHER (1922, Germany) takes place in Russia at the time of the 1905 revolution, as authorities decide to distract popular anger against the czarist government by fomenting pogroms against Jews. Dreyer based his film on a Danish novel from 1912 by Aage Madelung, a then-popular realist writer.

CARL TH. DREYER: ONCE UPON A TIME (DER VAR ENGANG)

Carl Th. Dreyer (Denmark)

This DVD edition is a new restoration of Carl Th. Dreyer’s adaptation of Holger Drachmann’s popular naturalistic play. Despite the loss of approximately half of the moving picture content, the surviving scenes can now be seen in a complete narrative.

CARL TH. DREYER: THE PRESIDENT (PRÆSIDENTEN) 

Carl Th. Dreyer (Denmark)

This DVD edition is a restoration of Carl Th. Dreyer’s first feature film as director. Already in his debut we are witnesses to the thematic mainstay of most of his later films: the mother left to her own destiny with her illegitimate child. In this film the man is haunted by guilt, for which he is not allowed to repent.