Act of faith

• Autores: Jan Wahl
• Localización: Sight & sound, ISSN 0037-4806, Vol. 22, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the summer of 1954, Jan Walh was a young American student on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Copenhagen when he had the chance to spend some time with the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film Dreyer was shooting that summer was "Ordet" ("The Word"), subsequently acclaimed as one of the director's greates - and one of the most moving explorations of faith in all cinema. Wahl's transcriptions of his conversations with Dreyer form the basis of a newly published memoir, of which this is an edited extract