The Bride of Glomdal

Dreyer, 1926, Norway: a poor farmer's son (Einar Sissener) loves a rich farmer's daughter (Tove Teje) who is promised to another man. From a story by Jacob Breda Bull. The river, the flood, the horse. Dreyer between Leaves from Satan's Book and The Passion of Joan of Arc, shooting landscape as fate. It is a love story that treats water as the other suitor, and a director learning how little dialogue a face needs.