"Film was his biggest passion"

DREYER. See Danish directors Christoffer Boe, Lone Scherfig and Ole Christian Madsen talk about their relationship to Carl Theodor Dreyer.

2. juni 2010 Redaktionen

WITH PEERS. Reception on the occasion of the premiere of Dreyer’s "Gertrud" in Paris 1964: Henri-Georges Clouzot, René Clément, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Dreyer. Photo: DFI

Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is a giant in Danish cinema. On the occasion of carlthdreyer.dk, a comprehensive website on the filmmaker's life and work launched May 2010, the Danish Film Institute asked three prominent Danish directors about their relationship to Dreyer:

"I like to call his films churches."

Christoffer Boe ("Reconstruction", "Everything Will Be Fine"):

"He set an example, daring to be extremely simple."

Lone Scherfig, standing in the oldest running film studio in the world at Nordisk Film: ("An Education", "Italian for Beginners"):

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"Film was his biggest passion."

Ole Christian Madsen ("Prague", "Flame & Citron"):

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