Rent Carl Theodor Dreyer: My Metier (1995)
3.5 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
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 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 ... - Actors:
- Clara Pontoppidan, Hélène Falconetti, Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Jørgen Roos, Birgitte Federspiel, Henning Bendtsen, Baard Owe, Axel Strøbye, Brian Patterson, David Bateson, Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Directors:
- Torben Skjødt Jensen
- Producers:
- Michael Rask
- Writers:
- Torben Skjødt Jensen, Lars Bo Kimergaard, Prami Larsen
- Aka:
- Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier / Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
- Collections:
- A History of Cinemas in Films, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide to Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Countries:
- Denmark
