Gertrud (1964) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Gertrud
Year
1964
Running time
116 min.
Country
Denmark
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
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Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Romance. Drama | Psychological Drama. Romantic Drama
Synopsis
Adapted from Hjalmar Soderberg's 1919 play of the same title, GERTRUD tells the tale of a woman's search for idealized love and spiritual fulfillment, which takes her beyond the confines of a passionless marriage through a series of affairs that tragically fail to live up to her expectations. Employing restrained direction, stark set design, and long, contemplative shots, Dreyer's swan song is a beautiful, meditative and haunting masterwork.
Rankings Position
- #17 Best Nordic Countries Films
- #78 Best Romantic Movies in the history of film
- #90 Best Movies of the '60s
Awards
1965: Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award
1965: National Board of Review: Top Best Foreign Films
1971: CEC Medals: Best Movie of Art.
Critics' reviews
- "It's exquisite, unbearable, and unforgettable."
- "Dreyer's film depicts repressed carnal desires that merge with Gertrud's inevitably frustrated spiritual one: the longing for a love so total and consuming that it contains the seeds of its own destruction."
- "Nina Pens Rode has the right luminous quality for the romantic, uncompromising Gertrud, while the men are acceptable if sometimes overindulgent in their roles."
- "What presents the most difficulty is its talkiness (prompting one critic to call it a 'two-hour study of sofas and pianos'), but it is in Dreyer's simple, noncinematic technique one realizes the purity of his vision."
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Ranking Lists Position
- 20 My Favorite Danish Movies (31)
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