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Carl Theodor Dreyer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the…
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Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964). Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, and his wife, Inger Marie (née Olsen). He was named after his adoptive father, but in accordance with Danish practice, there is no "Senior" or "Junior" added to their names to distinguish them from each other. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
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2022
Dreyer's Gertrud
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Nitrate Flames
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2006
Carl Dreyer
Movie Himself
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1995
Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
Movie Himself
- 1994
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1989
Medea
Movie Screenplay
- 1982
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1972
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Movie In Memory Of
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1970
A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie Self
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1966
Carl Th. Dreyer
Movie Self
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1965
Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer
Movie Self
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1964
Gertrud
Movie Writer
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1955
Ordet
Movie Director
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1954
A Castle Within a Castle
Movie Director
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1950
Storstrøm Bridge
Movie Director
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1950
Shakespeare og Kronborg
Movie Writer
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1949
Thorvaldsen
Movie Director
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1948
They Caught the Ferry
Movie Director
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1947
The Village Church
Movie Director
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1947
The Fight Against Cancer
Movie Director
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1947
De gamle
Movie Writer
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1946
Water from the Land
Movie Director
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1945
Two People
Movie Director
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1943
Day of Wrath
Movie Director
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1942
Good Mothers
Movie Director
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1932
Vampyr
Movie Director
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1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Movie Director
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1926
The Bride of Glomdal
Movie Director
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1925
Master of the House
Movie Director
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1924
Michael
Movie Screenplay
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1922
Once Upon a Time
Movie Director
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1922
Love One Another
Movie Director
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1920
Leaves from Satan's Book
Movie Director
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1920
The Parson's Widow
Movie Director
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1919
The Countess' Honour
Movie Writer
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1919
The President
Movie Director
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1918
Lydia
Movie Writer
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1917
Hotel Paradis
Movie Screenplay
