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Ordet ( The Word) Carl Theodor Dreyer ( Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈtsʰe̝ːotɒ ˈtʁɑjˀɐ]; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, [1] was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his movies are noted for emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing ...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer is the most important director in Danish cinema. In international film history, too, he ranks as one of the greatest artists of all time. Born out of wedlock, Dreyer was adopted from an orphanage at age two. Shortly after, his birth mother died. Many film scholars have interpreted Dreyer’s adaptations of tragic stories about women as an autobiographical feature of his ...
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Mar 16, 2024 · Carl Theodor Dreyer (born Feb. 3, 1889, Copenhagen, Den.—died March 20, 1968, Copenhagen) was a motion-picture director whose most famous films were explorations of religious experience, executed in the Danish “static” style. Dreyer was a pianist, a clerk, a journalist, and a theatre critic before entering the cinema in 1913 as a writer ...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) Carl Theodor Dreyer. The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished ...
Carl Theodor Dreyer. Writer: Gertrud. The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the fact that his films often deal with religious themes ...
