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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Ordet (1955)
Cast: Preben Lendorff Rye, Henrik Malberg, Birgitte Federspiel, Ann Elisabeth Rud…
Plot Synopsis
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the conflict between internalized personal faith and organized religion. Dreyer sets the drama in a conservative, super-pious Danish town, where widower Morten Borgen (Henrik Malberg) — the father of three boys — cuts against the grain of the community with his constant heretical doubt. One of his sons, Mikkel Borgen (Emil Hass Christensen), is entangled in an interfaith romance with a fundamentalist’s daughter, while the second, Anders Borgen (Cay Kristiansen), is an agnostic, and the third, Johannes Borgen (Preben Leerdorff-Rye) — a devotee of Søren Kirkegaard — believes that he actually is Jesus Christ — a conviction ridiculed by almost everyone as pure insanity... by Hal Erickson (allmovie.com)
Cast: Preben Lendorff Rye, Henrik Malberg, Birgitte Federspiel, Ann Elisabeth Rud…
Plot Synopsis
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the conflict between internalized personal faith and organized religion. Dreyer sets the drama in a conservative, super-pious Danish town, where widower Morten Borgen (Henrik Malberg) — the father of three boys — cuts against the grain of the community with his constant heretical doubt. One of his sons, Mikkel Borgen (Emil Hass Christensen), is entangled in an interfaith romance with a fundamentalist’s daughter, while the second, Anders Borgen (Cay Kristiansen), is an agnostic, and the third, Johannes Borgen (Preben Leerdorff-Rye) — a devotee of Søren Kirkegaard — believes that he actually is Jesus Christ — a conviction ridiculed by almost everyone as pure insanity... by Hal Erickson (allmovie.com)
20-05-2011
