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The Danish Village Church (S)

5.8

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Original title: Landsbykirken (The Danish Village Church)
Year: 1947
Running time: 13 min.
Country: Denmark
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Screenwriter: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Bernhard Jensen
Cast: Documentary
Music: Svend Erik Tarp
Cinematography: Preben Frank (B&W)
Producer: Dansk Kulturfilm, Preben Frank
Genre: Documentary | Educational. Religion. Historical. Short Film
Synopsis: Landsbykirken [The Village Church] is a documentary on the 800 year old Danish village churches. Landsbykirken was made as an educational movie. It was therefore constructed to be very pedagogical so it looks a little formalistic.

The movie starts out with a short introduction to the Danish village churches. Then comes a series of scenes showing the evolution of the village churches and their use during the ages. The series comes to an end together with the movie when the present day [1947] is reached. Some scenes also contain shabby "historical" reenactments of the use of the churches. The costumes for some of these masquerades were also used in Dreyer's earlier feature film "Vredens Dag" [Day of Wrath]. There is one Swedish wooden church in the movie, but the rest of the shown churches are from locations in Denmark.

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The Danish Village Church (S)

1947

Carl Theodor Dreyer

5.8

(102)