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Word (The)
- Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Writer: Carl Theodor Dreyer; Kaj Munk
- Producer: Carl Theodor Dreyer; Erik Nielsen
CGiii Comment
The acting is atrocious - especially the madman.
The pace is slower than a dead snail.
The direction is stilted - imagine criticizing the great Dreyer!!!
Well, he's boring.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Widowed Patriarch Borgen, who's rather prominent in his community, has three sons: Mikkel, a good-hearted agnostic whose wife Inger is pregnant, Johannes, who believes he is Jesus, and Anders, young, slight, in love with the tailor's daughter. The fundamentalist sect of the girl's father is anathema to Borgen's traditional Lutheranism; he opposes the marriage until the tailor forbids it, then Borgen's pride demands that it happen. Unexpectedly, Inger, who is the family's sweetness and light, has problems with her pregnancy. The rational doctor arrives, and a long night brings sharp focus to at least four views of faith.
Cast & Characters
Hanne Agesen as Karen, a Servant;
Kirsten Andreasen;
Sylvia Eckhausen as Kirstin Petersen;
Birgitte Federspiel as Inger, Mikkel's Wife;
Ejner Federspiel as Peter Petersen;
Ann Elisabeth Groth as Maren Borgen, Mikkel's Daughter;
Emil Hass Christensen as Mikkel Borgen;
Cay Kristiansen as Anders Borgen;
Preben Lerdorff Rye as Johannes Borgen;
Henrik Malberg as Morten Borgen;
Gerda Nielsen as Anne Petersen;
Ove Rud as Pastor;
Susanne Rud as Lilleinger Borgen, Mikkel's Daughter;
Henry Skjaer as The Doctor;
Edith Trane as Mette Maren