Gertrud (film)

Movie
German title	Gertrud
Original title	Gertrud
Country of production	Denmark
original language	Danish
Publishing year	1964
length	119 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Carl Theodor Dreyer
script	Carl Theodor Dreyer based on the play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg
production	Jørgen Nielsen
music	Jørgen Jersild
camera	Henning Bendtsen
cut	Edith Keys
occupation
Nina Pens Rode : Gertrud Kanning Bendt Rothe : Gustav Kanning Ebbe Rode : Gabriel Lidman Baard Owe : Erland Jansson Axel Strøbye : Axel Nygren Vera Gebuhr : Housekeeper at Kannings Lars Knutzon : Student Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt Anna Malberg Edouard Mielche Valsø Holm Carl Johan Hviid William garlic Ole Sarvig

Gertrud is a Danish black and white drama from 1964. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer , who also wrote the screenplay. It is based on the play of the same name by the Swedish playwright Hjalmar Söderberg . The main roles are occupied by Nina Pens Rode , Bendt Rothe , Ebbe Rode and Baard Owe . The film had its world premiere on December 18, 1964 in Paris. In Denmark it came to the cinema on January 1, 1965, in the Federal Republic of Germany on January 24, 1969.

action

In retrospect, the film describes the life of a misunderstood woman in Stockholm at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Three men played an essential role: the poet Gabriel Lidman, who - in her own words - made Gertrud a woman; the lawyer Gustav Kanning, her husband; then the young composer and pianist Erland Jansson, whom she turned to after her marriage had failed her fulfillment. In the end she lived - grown old and lonely - in a simple farmhouse, because each of these conditions failed because of the unconditionality of her claim. “The love of women and the work of men are enemies from the start”, this sentence by the poet Lidman was the reason for Gertrud to part with her lover. This sentence could also stand over her whole life; for even from her husband she did not get the unconditional attention she was looking for. She left him just at a point in time that brought him the climax of his professional career. For the artist Erland Jansson, Gertrud only offered a piquant adventure with an attractive woman in large society.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films drew the following conclusion: “In its restrained rhythm and its strictly composed, almost ascetic images, a drama of a classic format, in the context of the film aesthetic upheavals of the 1960s an irritating and stimulating anachronism.” The Protestant film observer also showed himself full of praise: “A classicist, cool film that strictly and precisely describes the contradiction between human nature and an absolute social order. Worth seeing and recommended for adults. "

Award

In 1965 Gertrud was awarded the Bodil Prize for the best Danish film .

Web links

• Gertrud in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gertrud at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Pictures from the film on cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 40/1969, pp. 43–44.
2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1292.