Dreyer was born an illegitimate within Copenhagen, Denmark, and was shortly orphan. His adoptive parents were strict Lutherans, and their teachings were to influence a themes of numbers of of his films.

As a young human, Dreyer worked as a journalist, eventually choosing his way into jobs writing title cards for silent films and so writing screenplays. His number one raid directing were met sustaining limited profits, & he at length left Denmark to try his hand in the movie industry of France.

It was there, around 1928, that he made his foremost classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Working from either actual transcripts of Joan's test, he created the masterpiece of emotion that drew equally from either realism & expressionism. His next film was Vampyr (1932), a surreal meditatiin on fear. Logic gave way to mood & atmosphere in that story of the human protecting 2 sisters from either the lamia. A moving-picture show contains numbers of unerasable images, like a hero dreaming of his have burial & a carnal bloodlust on a face of one of a sisters when she suffers under the lamia's spell. A film was shot as a silent however got dialogue added late across dubbing.

Each films were pack professional failures, & Dreyer did non produce an additional motion picture until 1943. At that period he processed Day of Wrath, a film all about the hypocrisy of victims world health organization engaged inside witchhunts. By owning this film, Dreyer established a style that would mark his healthy films: careful compositions, stark black & white filming, & super yearn requires.

Around 1955, he shot Ordet (a Word) according to the play of the equivalent title by Kaj Munk. the film combines a Romeo and Juliet-style love story by using an examination of faith.

Dreyer's go film was 1965's Gertrud. Although seen by the bit of as a lesser film than a ones preceding it, these are a fitting around Dreyer's career, when it deals sustaining the woman world health organization, through the ups & downs of her life, never expresses rue for her options.

Dreyer died within Copenhagen at age 79. A documental Carl Th. Dreyer: Min Métier contains reminiscences from either people world health organization knew him better.

Filmography

Ned Med Vaabnene (aka Establish Your computers Arms) (1914) ''Leaves from either Satan's Book (1919) Praestaenkan (aka Pastor's Widow woman) (1920) Die Gezeichneten (aka Love 1 A second) (1922) Mikael (1924) Du Skal Aere Din Hustru (aka Master of the Home) (1925) Glomsdalsbruden (aka Bride of Glomdal) (1925) The Passion of Joan of Arc (aka La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928) Vampyr (1932) Vredens Dag (aka Day of Wrath) (1943) Ordet (aka The Word) (1955) Gertrud'' (1965)