Gertrud
1964, Film, 116 min, Drama, Romance, Danish, Denmark, MoviePedia score 70
AMOR OMNIA, Love is Everything.
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. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
- Nina Pens Rode as Gertrud Kanning
- Bendt Rothe as Gustav Kanning
- Ebbe Rode as Gabriel Lidman
- Baard Owe as Erland Jansson
- Axel Strøbye as Axel Nygen
- Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt as Gertrud's concerned table neighbor
- Vera Gebuhr as The Kannings' maid
- Carl Johan Hviid
- William Knoblauch
- Lars Knutzon as Student orator
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