Dreyer's final film, Gertrud is the story of a woman's search for a romantic ideal of total and perfect love. A once famous singer now in her early forties, Gertrud makes the decision to leave her lawyer husband for her lover, a young composer. Discovering the next day that her lover has betrayed her, and is unable to give her his total love, Gertrud rejects both husband and lover, choosing a life of solitude and study over compromise of love that is merely half-measure.… mehr
Extras:
1965 Carl Theodor Dreyer interview by Julian Jebb (7:49)
"Carl Theodor Dreyer und Gertrud" 1994 documentary on the making of Gertrud by Christine Habich and Reinhard Wulf (28:51)
Short Films:
- "Good Mothers" (1942) (11:46)
- "The Fight Against Cancer" (1947) (11:06)
- "The Village Church" (1947) (13:53)
- "They Caught the Ferry" (1948) (11:48)
- "Thorsvaldsen" (1949) (10:02)
- "Storstrom Bridge" (1950) (7:06)
- "A Castle Within a Castle" (1955) (8:53) weniger