The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

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). - Contenuti speciali: -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.