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Politician's wife Gertrud (Nina Pens Rode) decides to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe) just as he is about to take his place in government. Intending to move in with her young composer lover (Ebbe Rode), her plans change when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her. Carl Theodor Dreyer's final film charts the titular heroine's gradual asserting of her commitment to truthful human relationships in a morally flawed society.

GERTRUD  A Film by Carl Theodor Dreyer   Dreyer's final film, Gertrud is the story of a woman's search for a romantic ideal of total and perfect love. A once famous singer now in her early forties, Gertrud makes the decision to leave her lawyer husband for her lover, a young composer. Discovering the next day that her lover has betrayed her, and is unable to give her his total love, Gertrud rejects both husband and lover, choosing a life of solitude and study over compromise of love that is merely half-measure.   DVD Extras Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud (Christiane Habich/Reinhard Wulf, 1994, 29 mins): documentary in the making of Gertrud The Village Church (Dreyer, 1947, 14 mins) Fully illustrated booklet with essays by Casper Tybjerg (University of Copenhagen) and Ilona Halberstadt (editor of PIX Directors: Carl Theodor Dreyer Writers: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Hjalmar Söderberg Format: PAL Language: Danish Subtitles: English Region: Region 2 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1 Number of discs: 1 Classification: PG Studio: Bfi DVD Release Date: 10 April 2006 Run Time: 112 minutes