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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.
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As director
Gertrud
Ordet
A Castle Within a Castle
Storstrøm Bridge
Thorvaldsen
They Caught the Ferry
The Fight Against Cancer
The Village Church
Water from the Land
Two People
Day of Wrath
Good Mothers
Vampyr
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Bride of Glomdal
Master of the House
Michael
Love One Another
Once Upon a Time
Leaves from Satan's Book
The Parson's Widow
The President
As actor
Dreyer's Gertrud
Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema
Nitrate Flames
Carl Dreyer
Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Carl Th. Dreyer
Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer
Dr. Cook at Copenhagen
Dr. Cooks Arrival