A film by Carl Theodor Dreyer . With Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass, Birgitte Federspiel, Ove Rud, Ejner Federspiel, Gerda Nielsen, Hanne Agesen, Kirsten Andreasen, Sylvia Eckhausen, Cay Kristiansen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Ann Elisabeth Rud, Susanne Rud, Skjær Henry, Edith TraneTitolo original. Drama , b / w 124 min duration. - Denmark 1954. Morten, the patriarch of the family Borgen, always strong in his faith, living a moment of deep crisis in his relationship with God because of their first child Mikkel atheism, the madness of the second son Johannes (student of the theories of Kierkegaard and now believes the new Messiah) and the third genito Anders, who would like to ask the hand of a girl daughter of a supporter of the opposing confession to him. The only one to bring a bit 'of peace in the family is Inger, Mikkel's wife, mother of two and pregnant with a boy.
Ordet Dreyer summarizes the view that religion, or rather how people see religion. Because for Dreyer religion is essentially the attitude with which man expresses his faith.
If the Danish director had already accustomed us to the mystical and seeking contact with God (La Passion de Jeanne D'arc at all), this time plays hard and puts into question all dogmas and dictates that the Christian religion has sent forward for more than two thousand years and bring it back to a size of rugged simplicity and immediacy that relationship between God and men uncomfortable miracle of miracles: the resurrection.
God found in the simplest things and the simplicity of man to know how to ask and seek him. It 's the lesson Johannes, son of Morten considered crazy, it deals with the whole family too occupied land for feelings not recognize the grace that God gives each day.
Blindness man wanting more diverts attention from important things, but extraordinary life. Dreyer's God is not necessarily Christian, it is clearly a symbol of purity and consciousness free from prejudices, just as that of Johannes or as that of the eldest daughter of Mikkel and Inger, the only ones who know how to turn to God
L ' austerity of the setting, the indeterminacy of space and place gives the work a more solemn work being carried out to a very emotional final (almost unusual for Dreyer also used to a rigorous stroardinario feelings) in which the sacred and the material melt, where the ' divine love and the ground together. The miracle is not the resurrection but the possibility of finding oneself through the whiteness of the gestures, and above all live in peace with others. Life is precious but too fragile to be able to spend in the complex machinations of the human mind. The spirit as the heart are two things a lot easier than imagined and should be the basis for a peaceful life and capable of recognition by the beauty of things that have been donated.
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