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96. Ordet (The Word)
1955
Director: Carl Dreyer
Screenplay: Kaj Munk
Cast:
Hanne Aagesen ... Karen (uncredited) Kirsten Andreasen ... (uncredited) Sylvia Eckhausen ... Kirstin Petersen (uncredited) 
Birgitte Federspiel ... Inger Borgen (uncredited) Ejner Federspiel ... Peter Petersen (uncredited) Ann Elisabeth Groth ... Maren Borgen (uncredited) Emil Hass Christensen ... Mikkel Borgen (uncredited) Cay Kristiansen ... Anders Borgen (uncredited) Preben Lerdorff Rye ... Johannes Borgen (uncredited) Henrik Malberg ... Morten Borgen (uncredited) Gerda Nielsen ... Anne Petersen (uncredited) Ove Rud ... Pastor
(uncredited) Susanne Rud ... Lilleinger Borgen (uncredited) Henry Skjær ... The Doctor (uncredited) Edith Trane ... Mette Maren (uncredited)
Review:
This film was not made primarily to keep one entertained, if entertainment means keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. It is a slow moving, thought provoking story about faith. The movie presents at least four views toward faith: the fundamentalist, a dogmatic view of the Lutheran faith, the non faith of the agnostic, and a man who struggles as much with his sanity as he strugles with his faith. (They tell you that he has been that way since he has read the writings of Soren Kierkegaard.
Dreyor develops his characters around their particular religious point of view. Two fathers who will not allow their children to marry because each of the children is of the wrong religious affiliation. The agnostic shows impatience with all the other characters religious prattle while his wife's life hangs in the balance
The movie does take its time to develop its characters so you don't really et to the core of the story until somewhere in the middle. In the end we, or at least I, are provided with a surprise and somewhat bizarre ending. (One I liked). Those who like the Scandinavian film makers like Bergman will not be disappointed.
96. Ordet (The Word)
1955
Director: Carl Dreyer
Screenplay: Kaj Munk
Cast:
Hanne Aagesen ... Karen (uncredited) Kirsten Andreasen ... (uncredited) Sylvia Eckhausen ... Kirstin Petersen (uncredited) Birgitte Federspiel ... Inger Borgen (uncredited) Ejner Federspiel ... Peter Petersen (uncredited) Ann Elisabeth Groth ... Maren Borgen (uncredited) Emil Hass Christensen ... Mikkel Borgen (uncredited) Cay Kristiansen ... Anders Borgen (uncredited) Preben Lerdorff Rye ... Johannes Borgen (uncredited) Henrik Malberg ... Morten Borgen (uncredited) Gerda Nielsen ... Anne Petersen (uncredited) Ove Rud ... Pastor (uncredited)
Susanne Rud ... Lilleinger Borgen (uncredited) Henry Skjær ... The Doctor (uncredited) Edith Trane ... Mette Maren (uncredited)Review:
This film was not made primarily to keep one entertained, if entertainment means keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. It is a slow moving, thought provoking story about faith. The movie presents at least four views toward faith: the fundamentalist, a dogmatic view of the Lutheran faith, the non faith of the agnostic, and a man who struggles as much with his sanity as he strugles with his faith. (They tell you that he has been that way since he has read the writings of Soren Kierkegaard.
Dreyor develops his characters around their particular religious point of view. Two fathers who will not allow their children to marry because each of the children is of the wrong religious affiliation. The agnostic shows impatience with all the other characters religious prattle while his wife's life hangs in the balance
The movie does take its time to develop its characters so you don't really et to the core of the story until somewhere in the middle. In the end we, or at least I, are provided with a surprise and somewhat bizarre ending. (One I liked). Those who like the Scandinavian film makers like Bergman will not be disappointed.