Released Date:
1966-06-02
Languages:
Danish
Countries:
Denmark
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (3433 Reviews)
Director:
Carl Theodor DreyerGenres:
DramaHjalmar Sèderberg (play)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson. When he also fails to live up to her idealistic standards, she leaves him and imposes on herself a kind of exile of the heart. In flashbacks and in conversations laced with memories, we also learn of her affair with Gabriel, who still wishes she would go off with him, and we learn of her adolescence, with its early expression of her isolating ideal of absolute love.
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