Ordet
Directed by	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Produced by	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by	Carl Theodor Dreyer Kaj Munk
Starring	Henrik Malberg Emil Hass Christensen Cay Kristiansen Preben Leerdorff-Rye
Music by	Poul Schierbeck
Cinematography	Henning Bendtsen
Editing by	Edith Schlüssel
Release date(s)	10 January 1955 15 December 1957 (NYC)
Running time	126 mins
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
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Plot

The film centres around a family of farmers, who are part of a god-fearing community. There are three brothers: Mikkel, who has no faith; Anders, who wants to marry the daughter of Peter, a tailor and preacher who refuses the marriage because of Ander's religious beliefs; the third brother is Johannes, who has seemingly lost his mind and believes himself to be Jesus. This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ...

Johannes is ridiculed for his belief, but his miracles allow him to heal the rift between the two different families. The final moments show Johannes using the miracle of resurrection. A miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by a god in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ... Look up Resurrection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

External links

• Ordet at the Internet Movie Database
• Unspoken Cinema review of Ordet
• Ordet at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list
• Criterion Collection essay by Chris Fujiwara

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