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Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

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Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 2800 kbps | 4.0Gb
Audio: Silent, Soundtrack AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English intertitles
Full time : 170 minutes | Germany, Norway, Sweden | Drama, Romance

Carl Theodor Dreyer was the uncompromising artist par excellence, a filmmaker whose artistic ambition and perseverance in achieving it, directly affected his output, a rather slim filmography - 14 features in 45 years. This publication presents two of Dreyer's early silent classics, LOVE ONE ANOTHER (DIE GEZEICHNETEN) (1922) and THE BRIDE OF GLOMDAL (GLOMDALSBRUDEN) (1926), on one disc.

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

Die Gezeichneten / Love One Another (1922)
VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 2800 kbps
Audio: Silent, Soundtrack AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English intertitles
01:35:00 | Germany

Love One Another is set in Russia before and during the revolution of 1905. The main character is a young Jewish girl, Hanne-Liebe, who has felt the prejudice among the Russians since childhood.
As the result of a cruel intrigue she is expelled from her school, and she travels to St. Petersburg where her brother Jakov, a wealthy lawyer, lives. A convert to Christianity, Jakov has been disowned by their father. Hanne-Liebe meets back up with Sascha, a revolutionary-minded student from her hometown, and they fall in love. Meanwhile, a police provocateur, Rylowitsch, tricks Sascha into preparing an act of revolutionary terrorism.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja, Sylvia Torf, Hugo Doblin, Johannes Meyer, Thorleif Reiss, J.N. Douvan-Tarzow, Richard Boleslawski, Emmy Wyda, Tatjana Tarydina, Elisabeth Pinajeff, Ivan Bulatov, Friedrich Kuhne

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)


IMDb

Dreyer based his film on a Danish novel by Aage Madelung, a writer with a large readership in Denmark and the German-speaking world. The German edition of the novel was entitled Die Gezeichneten (“The Marked Ones”), which was also the film’s German title. Striving for the greatest possible authenticity, Dreyer and his set designer, Jens Lind, travelled to Lublin in Poland, a city with a sizable Jewish population. They based the film’s exterior sets, which were constructed in Berlin, on the architecture there.

All his life, Dreyer was a sworn enemy of anti-Semitism, though this strong and impressive work was the only time he directly treated the subject in a film. Few, if any, films from this period depict the destructive power of racial hatred as clearly as Love one Another. The violence of the final pogrom still retains its power to shock. The film was not a hit in its day and, considering its unembellished realism, it has undeservedly become a somewhat overlooked work in Dreyer’s oeuvre.

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Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

Glomdalsbruden / The Bride of Glomdal (1926)
VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 2800 kbps
Audio: Silent, Soundtrack AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English intertitles
01:14:00 | Norway, Sweden | Drama, Romance

Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgarden on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit loves. Tore falls in love with her, but her father has promised her to rich Gjermund. As her wedding to Gjermund draws near, Berit runs away and seeks refuge with Tore and his parents. She soon falls deathly ill but recovers, asking for, and getting, her father's permission to marry Tore.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Einar Sissener, Tove Tellback, Stub Wiberg, Harald Stormoen, Alfhild Stormoen, Oscar Larsen, Einar Tveito, Rasmus Rasmussen, Sofie Reimers, Julie Lampe, Henny Skjonberg

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)

Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten (1922) + The Bride of Glomdal / Glomdalsbruden (1926)


IMDb

The Bride of Glomdal is a melodrama kept in a light tone, and nature is a significant co-actor. Gorgeous mountains and a rushing river frame the film, which was shot in the Norwegian high summer. Very unusually for Dreyer, he was not particularly well prepared for this film. No real script existed and he reportedly read the book on which the film is based on the train to Norway. Moreover, the film was shot in a very short time, because the actors had to return to the theatres after their summer vacation.

The film is distinguished by some dramatic scenes with cross-cutting inspired by D.W. Griffith. The scenes fall toward the end of the film, when Tore has to dramatically ford the river to get his Berit.

The Bride of Glomdal was generally well received in Norway and Denmark. In particular, the stunning Norwegian scenery was extolled. The film is not among Dreyer’s most important works, though he was quite satisfied with it himself, considering its rather chaotic creation.