Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer is, for me, one of cinema's true high priests. The Passion of Joan of Arc is still one of the most overwhelming films I have ever sat through, those enormous close-ups of Falconetti's face hollow you out. Dreyer worked slowly and rarely, and you feel that austerity in every frame: the spiritual weight of Ordet, the dread of Vampyr, the stillness of Gertrud. He won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1955 for Ordet, but awards almost feel beside the point. This is a Danish master who treated film as something close to prayer, and it shows.

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Name (English)

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Name (Japanese)

カール・テオドア・ドライヤー

Reading

かーる・ておどあ・どらいやー

Born

February 3, 1889 – March 20, 1968

Origin

Copenhagen, Denmark

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film editor / director / filmmaker

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

Awards & achievements

• 1955 Golden Lion

• Official sitehttps://www.carlthdreyer.dk
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Theodor%20Dreyer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%AA%E3%83%89%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51127

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film editor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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