Directed by:
Carl Theodor DreyerCinematography:
Henning BendtsenComposer:
Poul SchierbeckCast:
Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Ejner Federspiel, Ove Rud, Edith Thrane, Cay Kristiansen (more)Plots(1)
With his masterful Ordet (aka The Word, [1955]), legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the conflict between internalized personal faith and organized religion. Dreyer sets the drama in a conservative, super-pious Danish town, where widower Morten Borgen (Henrik Malberg) -- the father of three boys -- cuts against the grain of the community with his constant heretical doubt. One of his sons, Mikkel Borgen (Emil Hass Christensen), is entangled in an interfaith romance with a fundamentalist's daughter, while the second, Anders Borgen (Cay Kristiansen), is an agnostic, and the third, Johannes Borgen (Preben Leerdorff-Rye) -- a devotee of Søren Kirkegaard -- believes that he actually is Jesus Christ -- a conviction ridiculed by almost everyone as pure insanity. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Henrik Malberg
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Emil Hass Christensen
Denmark
Best movies:
Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
The Word (1955)
Preben Lerdorff Rye
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Birgitte Federspiel
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Hunger (1966)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Ejner Federspiel
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Olsen-banden (1968)
Ove Rud
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Flickering Lights (2000)
Edith Thrane
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Cay Kristiansen
Denmark
Best movies:
The Word (1955)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Just Like Home (2007)
Kirsten Andreasen
Denmark
Best movies:
Ditte, Child of Man (1946)
The Word (1955)
Day of Wrath (1943)