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Carl Th. Dreyer: My Métier (1995)
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96 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Carl Th. Dreyer: My Métier (1995)

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96 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Carl Theodor Dreyer is a young journalist in Copenhagen when he gets involved in the early Danish film industry. He writes scripts and inter-titles, and for some years he is the main editor at Nordisk Film. After those years of ...See moreCarl Theodor Dreyer is a young journalist in Copenhagen when he gets involved in the early Danish film industry. He writes scripts and inter-titles, and for some years he is the main editor at Nordisk Film. After those years of apprenticeship he gets the opportunity to direct his first film in 1917. Dreyer wanted his films to carry his personal imprints down to the smallest details, and already in his first silent movies it's possible to find stylistic traits that characterize his entire film production until his last film in 1964. The settings of his first films are naturalistic, but for Dreyer realism is not an art in itself. Only psychological realism is. His main interest is not the outer life, but the inner, emotional life of human beings. Emotions are most visible in facial expressions, and Dreyer's films are full of close-ups of human faces. By capturing the subtle, visual expressions of his characters, Dreyer tries to reveal the feelings they conceal and the storms that are raging inside them. Although many of his films end in tragedy, his intention is always to create a hymn to the triumph of the soul over life. Dreyer's own character was just as complex and contradictory as his film characters. Many of the actors he worked with describe him as a modest, amiable man, who was quiet in his statements, but intense and strong-willed inside. While his outer appearance was utterly self-effacing, he had at the same time an insistent stubbornness, which didn't accept any artistic compromises. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se} See less

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Name	Known for
Clara Pontoppidan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	En kvinde er overflødig (1957)
Hélène Falconetti Self Self See fewer	Llamas de Nitrato (2014)
Lisbeth Movin Self Self See fewer	The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman (1948)
Preben Lerdorff Rye Self Self See fewer	A Stranger Knocks (1959)
Jørgen Roos Self Self See fewer	Ellehammer-filmen (1957)
Birgitte Federspiel Self Self See fewer	Babette's Feast (1987)
Henning Bendtsen Self Self See fewer	Europa (1991)
Baard Owe Self Self See fewer	The Kingdom (1994)
Axel Strøbye Self Self See fewer	Gertrud (1964)
Brian Patterson Director's Voice Director's Voice See fewer	In China They Eat Dogs (1999)
David Bateson Comments Comments See fewer	Hitman: Absolution (2012)
Carl Theodor Dreyer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gertrud (1964)