丹麦小村教堂

   暴风资源网 提供本片资源  The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simle wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The develoment and the growth of the attern of church architecture is shown.　　Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different eriods with churchgoers in eriod clothing. Each eriod is searated by a shot of a church bell double-exosed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different eochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, excet erhas in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.　　The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their lanned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the scrit that was written by editor and folk high-school rincial Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of exerts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus (The Church Is an Old House), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments.　　In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of orcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church.　　On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of hotograhy, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast.　　Otherwise, the roduction went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no roblem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Coenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, lus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, esecially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too exensive.　　The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 Setember 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard ractice, the film was resented to the ress, oliticians and others on a rogramme with four other short films.