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Ordet

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Ordet
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NR,2hrs 6min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1954
Director:
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Cay Kristiansen  ...more
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 ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
His return to features after a decade of documentary shorts, Ordet (1955) is one of Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer's most intense examinations of faith and religion. The second film version of Kaj Munk's play, Dreyer crisply lays out Ordet's different permutations of religious belief in the opening search for delusional theology student Johannes, setting up the conflict between personal faith and ... Full Review
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Henrik Malberg
Morten Borgen
Emil Hass Christensen
Mikkel Borgen
Cay Kristiansen
Anders Borgen
Preben Leerdorff-Rye
Johannes Borgen
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