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This strictly limited edition Blu-ray box set presents a number of his most revered films alongside some of his lesser-known fiction and documentary shorts, as well as an extensive selection of extra features.
The eleven films included in this set are:
Master of the House (1925) / Good Mothers (1942) / Day of Wrath (1943) /
The Fight Against Cancer (1947) / The Village Church (1947) /
They Caught the Ferry (1948) / Thorsvaldsen (1949) / Storstrøm Bridge (1950) /
A Castle Within a Castle (1955) / Ordet (1955) / Gertrud (1964)
Special features
- Newly remastered High Definition presentations of all Dreyer films
- Alternative English and Danish intertitled versions of Master of the House
- Master of the House Restoration Demonstration (2010, 4 mins): split-screen comparison
- Alternative presentation of Day of Wrath with English opening and closing sequences
- Day of Wrath audio commentary with Dreyer expert Casper Tybjerg
- The Cross (Tag Gallagher, 2009, 20 mins): video essay on Day of Wrath
- Ordet Og Lyset (Helga Theilgaard, 2001, 35 mins): interview with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen
- Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud (Christiane Habich, Reinhard Wulf, 1994, 29 mins): documentary featurette
- Carl Th. Dreyer Interviewed by Julian Jebb (1965, 8 mins): rare BBC archive film of Dreyer
- Carl Th. Dreyer – My Métier (Torben Skjødt Jensen, 1995, 93 mins): acclaimed feature-length documentary
- My Métier interview outtakes (1995, 80 mins): in-depth interviews with Dreyer collaborators
- Jørgen Roos archive (1949-65, 8 mins): a selection of Dreyer-related archival film material
- DR Danish television archive (1965-68, 13 mins): rare Dreyer footage and interviews with collaborators
- An Introduction to the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by Henning Camre (2003, 10 mins, audio only)
- An Interview with Ove Brusendorff of the Danish Film Museum (date unknown, 16 mins, audio only)
- Booklet essays by Casper Tybjerg, Philip Kemp, Ilona Halberstadt, Philip Horne, Tom Milne and Nick Wrigley
Product information
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Certificate
12
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Colour
Black/white
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Sound
Sound and Silent
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Running time
638mins
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Languages
Danish
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Subtitles
Optional English subtitles
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Original aspect ratio
Original aspect ratios 1.33:1 + 1.66:1
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DVD region
2 Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, French Overseas departments and territories
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Blu-ray region
B - Includes most European and Middle-Eastern countries, all of Africa, Australia and New Zealand
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Catalogue number
BFIB1208
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