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Gertrud is a 1964 Danish drama film written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer; it is based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. The title role of Gertrud Kanning is played by Nina Pens Rode, with Bendt Rothe as her husband, Gustav Kanning, and Baard Owe as her lover, Erland Jansson.
Gertrud: Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. With Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe. In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
Gertrud. Carl Dreyer’s last film neatly crowns his career: a meditation on tragedy, individual will and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love—but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks.
When an old lover (Ebbe Rode) returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality. Hopeless romantic Gertrud (Nina Pens Rode) inhabits a...
In Carl Dreyer's deliberately-paced, meditative romantic drama, the director's final completed feature film (noted for very lengthy takes and lots of dialogue) - a profound masterpiece about the search for ideal love without compromise by a woman who had four suitors during her lifetime:
Adapted from a 1906 play by Hjalmar Söderberg, Gertrud is the story of a woman’s search for a romantic ideal of total and perfect love. A once famous singer now in her early 40s and retired in Stockholm, Gertrud makes the decision to leave Gustav, her lawyer husband for her lover, Erland, a young composer.
When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality. Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her.
