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Denmark's Great Sculptor
Carl Th. Dreyer, Preben Frank, Denmark, 1949
9 min.DK/DocumentaryPortrait films
A portrait of the great Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Dreyer uses close-ups of Thorvaldsen's reliefs and sculptures and lingers on the essential details of human anatomy.
| Original title | Thorvaldsen |
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| Danish title | Thorvaldsen |
| Keywords | Thorvaldsen, Bertel, Sculptures, Sculptors, Artists, Arts, Vor Frue Kirke, Copenhagen, 1700-1799, 1940-1949 |
| Director | Carl Th. Dreyer, Preben Frank |
| Screenplay | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| Director of Photography | Preben Frank |
| Editor | Preben Frank |
| Composer | Svend Erik Tarp |
| Production country | Denmark |
| Domestic distribution | Statens Filmcentral |
| Technical info | 290 meter, 35 mm, 1,37:1 Academy, Black/white, Sound |
| Danish theatrical release | 20.04.1949 |
| Cinemas | Scala vist som forfilm til "Safari på liv og død" ("The Macomber Affair") |
| Find more | Britta Martensen-Larsen: Om Carl Th. Dreyers "Thorvaldsens kunst", in Konsthistorisk tidskrift, årg. LXIV, 1995 (udgivet af Konsthistoriska Sällskapet) |
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| Production company | Preben Frank Film, Dansk Film Co. |
| Commissioned by | Dansk Kulturfilm |
| Domestic distribution | Statens Filmcentral |
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Direction |
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| Direction | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| Direction | Preben Frank |
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Script |
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| Script | Carl Th. Dreyer |
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Cinematography |
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| Cinematography | Preben Frank |
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Editing |
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| Editing | Preben Frank |
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Music |
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| Music | Svend Erik Tarp |
| Conductor | Erik Tuxen |
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Other credits |
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| Expert: art historian | Sigurd Schultz |
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Voiceover |
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| Dansk speak | Ib Koch-Olsen |
| Fransk speak | Therése Camos |
| Engelsk speak | Dudley Platt |
| Tysk speak | Karl Striebeck |
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