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Gertrud (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Written By:
Hjalmar Söderberg
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Actors:
Nina Pens Rode ..... Gertrud Kanning
Bendt Rothe ..... Gustav Kanning
Ebbe Rode ..... Gabriel Lidman
Baard Owe ..... Erland Jansson
Axel Strøbye ..... Axel Nygen
Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt ..... The Kannings' Maid
Vera Gebuhr ..... Student orator
Lars Knutzon ..... Kanning's mother
Anna Malberg ..... The Rector Magnific
Edouard Mielche

Synopsis:

Carl Dreyer's last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy, individual will, and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love - but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Always the stylistic innovator, Dreyer employs long takes and theatrical staging to concentrate on Nina Pens Rode's sublime portrayal of the proud and courageous Gertrud.

In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson. When he also fails to live up to her idealistic standards, she leaves him and imposes on herself a kind of exile of the heart. In flashbacks and in conversations laced with memories, we also learn of her affair with Gabriel, who still wishes she would go off with him, and we learn of her adolescence, with its early expression of her isolating ideal of absolute love.

In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 March, 2013.