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Henrik Malberg (1873–1958) was a Danish actor of theater and Danish cinema who played his most noted role at the age of 80—the stoic authoritative farm owner in the Carl Theodor Dreyer classic film Ordet.
Henrik Martin Marinus Malberg (født 4. december 1873 i Aarhus, død 28. september 1958 i København) var en dansk skuespiller, bror til Peter Malberg. Han blev født i Skolegade 7 som søn af Peter Broch Malberg og Catrine Marie Scheibye.
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The film centers around the Borgen family in rural Denmark during the autumn of 1925. The devout widower Morten, patriarch of the family, prominent member of the community, and patron of the local parish church, has three sons. Mikkel, the eldest, who has no faith, is happily married to the pious Inger, who is pregnant with their third child. Johan...
Pre-production
After several years of financial problems stalled his film career, Dreyer was awarded a lifelong lease to the Dagmar Bio, an art-house movie theater in Copenhagen, in 1952 . The Danish government had often given such awards to older artists, and the profits from the theater allowed Dreyer to begin production on a new film through Palladium Studios. Around that time, Palladium president Tage Nielsen received a suggestion for Dreyer's next film from the government-run Dansk Kulturfilm; Dreyer h...
Filming
Filming lasted for four months: two months on a studio set and two months in Vedersø, a village in West Jutland where Munk had served as a Lutheran priest. Ordet is best remembered for its cinematography. The film has a total of 114 individual shots, half of which occur in the first and last scenes of the film. Many shots lasted for up to seven minutes.Dreyer used mostly long takes and a slow moving camera, as his style had been gradually progressing towards for several years. He also paid cl...
The film premiered on 10 January 1955 at Dagmar Teatret in Copenhagen. It was Dreyer's first film since The Passion of Joan of Arc to immediately receive critical praise and was especially popular in his native Denmark with both critics and audiences, as well as with critics in other countries. It also won the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice Interna...
Ordet was entered into the 16th Venice International Film Festival and won its highest prize, the Golden Lion. In 1956 the film was among films honored with the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Film in 1957. At the 1955 Bodil Awards it won for Best Actor (Emil Hass Chr...
Ordet at IMDbOrdet at AllMovieOrdet at Rotten TomatoesArticle about The Word on the Carl Th Dreyer website(in English) Retrieved 2013-03-12Henrik Malberg var en dansk skuespiller, der debuterede i 1896 og medvirkede i mange film, revyer og stumfilm. Han spillede bl.a. præsten i Vejlby, borgmester i Kobberbryllup og pastor i Den kloge mand.
Henrik Malberg was born on 4 December 1873 in Aarhus, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Kobberbryllup (1933), Præsten i Vejlby (1931) and Det største i verden (1921). He died on 28 September 1958 in Denmark.
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Henrik Malberg var en af Danmarks førende skuespillere på scenen og i stumfilmperioden. Han spillede blandt andet Morten Borgen i Carl Dreyers "Ordet" og Morten Gamst i "Den kloge Mand".
Starring Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Cay Kristiansen. A farmer’s family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love—one child believes he’s Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist’s daughter.
