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The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

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The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

The Parson's Widow (1920)
Three Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:11:02 | 6,87 Gb
Musical Score AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps with English intertitles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Classics

Carl Theodor Dreyer creates a humorous, poignant, and compassionate domestic satire on aging, obsolescence, and the social status of women in The Parson's Widow. Using recurrent imagery, doppelgängers, and plot repetition, Dreyer affectionately illustrates the transience and unalterable cycle of life: the repeated shot of Söfren and Mari by the waterfall at the beginning and end of the film; Dame Margarete's perceived appearance as a young woman; the dilemma that Dame Margarete and her first husband (her true love) similarly faced as Söfren and Mari on the road to the parsonage. Inevitably, by presenting Söfren and Mari's comically misadventurous path towards reconciling the diametric forces of moral obligation and personal integrity, perseverance and humanity, social duty and emotional need, Dreyer reveals the immutable process of life and the innate human struggle for spiritual and secular equilibrium.


Sofren has just finished his studies and has come to the village with his fiancée, Mari, hoping to be appointed parson at a little Norwegian village where the previous parson has just died. The village has two other candidates for the post, both learned gentlemen from Copenhagen. One bores the congregation to sleep and the other is subjected to one of Sofren’s pranks, which makes him a laughing-stock. Sofren succeeds where the other two failed by relying on the old tried and trusted method of putting the fear of God into the people of the village. He is hired, but upon his appointment he discovers that the widow of the late parson, Dame Margarete, through some strange local custom, has the right to marry the new parson. Needless to say, she’s a formidable-looking ancient battleaxe who is reputed to have witch-like powers. Sofren has no choice however – he must accept the tradition, as Mari’s father will not allow her to marry him unless he has a post. All he can hope is that the old woman, already three times married, dies soon – with perhaps a little help from outside forces if necessary…

The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

The Parson’s Widow has little of the formal style that Dreyer would later employ in his work and certainly little of the psychological detail of those later films. Surprisingly it shows a lighter side to a fairly serious director, with a fair degree of humour, a strong situation and some good character detail – although it is a little on the broad side. As in Dreyer’s other film dealing with witchcraft, Day of Wrath, the film uses the elements of people’s belief in superstition and the supernatural to draw out the true human characteristics that lie beneath them. Certainly, those characteristics are less dramatic in The Parson’s Wife and the tone is markedly different, but it draws out the human elements superbly nonetheless.

The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

The Parson’s Widow is not a typical Dreyer film, operating on a lighter level with a quicker pace and a fair amount of humour, but it is a fine film nonetheless, showing a deeper interest in human nature, behaviour and spiritualism that would be more fully explored in the director’s later films. The Image release is excellent, using a fine well-tinted print, an appropriate music score and containing a few rare short films as extra features.
The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

Carl Theodor Dreyer's third feature is of all things a comedy. This seems out of character for the very somber-minded dramatist, but he shows a very delicate touch to present a touching comedy of manners that has a heart and hinges on a moral. It's based on the story by Norwegian reformist clergyman Kristofer Janson and is set in a 17th-century rural small Norwegian town. Keeping with Dreyer's essential filming technique of maintaining reality, he shoots it in the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer, Norway, where as part of their exhibit they have preserved the 17th-century farm homes and their furnishings. Dreyer was one of the first filmmakers to go out of the studio and shoot in the actual locations. The film has a beautiful feel for the period, as it gives one the feeling they were transported back to a different age.

The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

The impoverished divinity student graduate Söfren (Einar Röd) and Mari (Greta Almroth) are an engaged couple but can't marry, according to her father, unless Söfren gets appointed as a parson (indicating how rough things were economically at the time). Söfren, along with two other candidates, applies for the job in a rural Norwegian village where the pastor recently passed away, and gets the job over his two more sophisticated but unfeeling candidates by giving a more inspired modern sermon. The catch is he can only have the post if he, according to custom, marries the parson's widow. The widow, Dame Margarete Pedersdotter (Hildur Carlberg), is old enough to be his grandmother, and has already laid to rest three other husbands. Margarete is also rumored to be a witch. She insists on going through with the marriage because she loves living in the parsonage, and when she meets with Söfren she puts a spell on the herrings she serves him for breakfast and he proposes. He then passes his girlfriend Mari off as his sister and has her move into the parsonage. Söfren tries to reassure Mari that Margarete will soon die and he'll then take over the parsonage and marry her.

The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

Margarete shows Söfren she's the master of the house and lets him only take care of his church duties of giving sermons and prayers while she runs things alone in the parsonage. Margarete also keeps the lovers apart, sometimes by means of black magic, despite Söfren coming up with many stupid tricks to be with Mari. It's only when Mari takes a fall and breaks her thigh-bone that things suddenly take a change for the better, as Margarete tenderly nurses her back to health and in appreciation Söfren fesses up that Mari is really his love interest. Margarete tells how she also was in the same position when her love had to marry the parson's widow and it wasn't until five years later when the widow died could she marry her first husband.

The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

Carl Theodor Dreyer creates a humorous and poignant satire on the sometimes ridiculous constraints society places on individuals. It ranges in covering the obstacles faced in confronting one's life cycle to the moral obligations of being true to one's own innermost heartfelt desires, and has a certain potency in its beguilling storytelling that seems as magical as a fairytale.
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]

Edition Details:
• De nåede færgen / They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer short 11:12, 1948, IMDB) - Danish language with removeable English subtitles.
• Thorvaldsen (Dreyer short 9:58, 1949, IMDB) - Danish or English language.
• Neal Kurz Music Cues (Direct Jump to Music).
The Parson's Widow (1920) [Re-UP]


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