Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema. His best known films include The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), and Gertrud (1964). Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, and his wife, Inger Marie (née Olsen). He was named after his adoptive father, but in accordance with Danish practice, there is no "Senior" or "Junior" added to their names to distinguish them from each other. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

Dreyer's Gertrud

Self (archive footage)

Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema

Self (archive footage)

Nitrate Flames

Himself (archive footage)

Carl Dreyer

Himself

Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier

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Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud

1994

The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

1982

A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film

Self (archive footage)

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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Carl Th. Dreyer

Self

Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer

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Dr. Cook at Copenhagen

1909

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Dr. Cooks Arrival