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Prästänkan (1920)

Drama | 71 minutes
3,24 25 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 71 minuten

Alternative title: The Parson's Widow

Country: Sweden / Denmark

Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stars: Greta Almroth, Einar Röd and Hildur Carlberg

IMDb score: 7,1 (1.636)

Releasedate: 4 October 1920

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Prästänkan plot

An ambitious young man, Söfren, is chosen to become a pastor in a small rural village. Although he is betrothed to Mari, whom her father allows him to marry only if he becomes a minister, according to the custom he must marry the wife of the previous deceased vicar, Dame Margarete. Söfren agrees to this in order to be able to hold the position of pastor. He does bring Mari into the house on the pretext that she is her sister, in order to have her close to him. Söfren hopes that Dame Margarete will die soon and tries to lend a hand in this herself.

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Dame Margarete

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Mari - His Sweetheart

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Neighboring Priest

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Movsin

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Carl Theodor Dreyer's films have always fascinated me, including this one, one of his first works.

As always, there is a lot of attention to detail and certainly to the compositions of the images. It is special to see how Dreyer likes to place his characters in a doorway. As if they are in a frame and I can assure you that it is an impressive sight to be able to "admire" Dame Margarete almost (she is larger than the doorway) in full length.

A drama comedy in its entirety. Dramatic because of the crazy customs that oblige, serious because of the moral lessons - never judge someone without thorough knowledge... - and funny because of the comic situations that arise.

The acting is also a plus.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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In itself quite nice but not really a successful film. Dreyer made the film about Jeanne d'Arc 9 years later and that was visually very strong but this Prästänkan has to rely too much on endless chunks of text between the scenes. Real rhythm never comes into the film despite the decent acting and the quite nice story. 2.5*.

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