Directed by:
Carl Theodor DreyerCinematography:
Henning BendtsenComposer:
Poul SchierbeckCast:
Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Ejner Federspiel, Ove Rud, Edith Thrane, Cay Kristiansen (more)VOD (1)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Golden Globes
- 1956 - Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1957 - Best Foreign Language Film
Venice Film Festival
- 1955 - Carl Theodor Dreyer (Golden Lion for Best Film)