A description of the measures taken to protect the health both of married and unmarried mothers and their children through "Mother Help" (Mødrehjælpen) - a humanitarian organisation aiding young mothers with children. The theme is illustrated by taking a simple story of an unmarried mother. All the parts are played by natural types.
The film was produced by Dansk Kulturfilm for the Joint Committee of the Mother's Aid Institutions (Mødrehjælpens Fællesraad) in 1942 and added to the Social Denmark series in 1947. One of the two short Danish dialogue sequences has been eliminated from the English version.
In 1940, Ebbe Neergaard published En Filminstruktørs Arbejde ("A Film Director’s Work"), the first ever Dreyer biography. At a reception for the book, Dreyer was first introduced to Mogens Skot-Hansen. The next day Dreyer called him up, suggesting that they co-write a feature film adapting the play Anne Pedersdotter. Skot-Hansen, who had been involved in screenwriting before, was honoured and accepted the offer. They co-wrote the screenplay and Skot-Hansen tried to sell the Anne Pedersdotter project to Nordisk Film. He recalls the pitch as follows:
"Nordisk executive Brøndum was very commercial and thought like a calculator. I made a deal with him: Dreyer would do a short film for Nordisk – and afterwards Nordisk would finance his feature film. That short film was Good Mothers."
He made Nordisk Film promise to produce the film if Dreyer proved that he could stick to a budget.
"I spoke with Dreyer on Friday and he immediately contacted a lady at Mødrehjælpen [Mothers Aid, ed.]. On Monday already he provided all kinds of information on the subject and had written a script, utterly perfect."
Good Mothers was shot in the summer of 1942 at Nordisk Film with a cast of non-actors, many of them affiliated with Mødrehjælpen. Kristian, a small boy who is brought along to Mødrehjælpen by Erna (Hjørdis Jacobsen), is played by the son of Vera Skalts who headed the organisation for many years.
The dramatised parts suffer severely from bad acting, but otherwise the film is neatly put together, although that does not mean that it looks anything like a Dreyer film. It is dated in many ways. Apart from the film’s moral and legal datedness, its language is gratingly old-fashioned. Erna teaches a "simple children’s song" at a parenting class that goes:
Poor little Negro boy
He is black from head to toe
So he must always go
Poor little Negro boy.
Dreyer finished Good Mothers on time and on budget, so that was not why Nordisk Film got cold feet and reneged on producing Anne Pedersdotter. Dreyer, however, did get the studio’s permission to try and "place himself and Anne Pedersdotter with Palladium." Skot-Hansen showed Palladium the financial statements for Good Mothers, persuading chief executive Tage Nielsen to produce the film that would become Day of Wrath.

一则跨越三代，不停纠缠在不伦与血统之间的家族故事，德莱叶不仅赋予本片一股浓得化不开的悲剧气氛，也尖锐的触碰了个体感情与森严的血统律法冲突时，道德与宗教都无法解决的矛盾。德莱叶首部剧情长片作品，将自己身为私生子的身世背景融入其中，俯拾皆是私密的感情印记，细腻如浪漫画派的摄影和多层次的叙事逻辑，已经完全展现大师级的电影语言与深邃的人文情怀。

Based on Émile Zola's novel "L'Argent".

卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶这部喜剧引出心灵流变的轨迹，并在喜剧形式表现中要求夸张的转折与表演方式。他的简单主义从《总统》的办公室开始到玛格丽特夫人的屋舍，更趋向朴质。而对容貌的描写这里也有了开端。影片中的骗徒，终究抵抗不了良心的责备以及虚假婚姻阻隔与女友之间的真情。但有趣的是，被骗的老妇却早已察觉他的不怀好意但又绝非恶徒。反而是外力最后促使内在的圆满。

Russie, 1905. Lasse de l'atmosphère antisémite de son village natal, la jeune Hanne Segal part à Saint-Pétersbourg rejoindre son frère Jacob qui, converti au christianisme, est devenu un riche avocat. Elle y retrouve aussi son ancien ami Sacha, entré dans un groupe révolutionnaire...

维克托是个大男子主义者，在他眼里，妻子艾达所做的一切都是理所应当的。有一天，艾达被辞退了，心中更加无比愤懑，维克托的老奶奶和朋友们于是决定演一出好戏，让维克托反思自己过去的行为。

The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simple wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The development and the growth of the pattern of church architecture is shown.
Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different epochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.
The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their planned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the script that was written by editor and folk high-school principal Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of experts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus ("The Church Is an Old House"), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments.
In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of porcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church.
On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of photography, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast.
Otherwise, the production went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no problem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Copenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, plus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, especially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too expensive.
The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 September 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard practice, the film was presented to the press, politicians and others on a programme with four other short films.

The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.

本片是德莱叶的第一部有声片，是恐怖片的经典，而且比现代恐怖片更具有心理震撼性。
影片以营造气氛著称，弥漫着梦幻和诡异。
故事讲述一个年轻人觉得自己遭到僵尸的包围，并幻想自己被安葬到坟墓里。
影片采用了很多新奇的拍摄角度，营造出独具一格的映像效果，又通过暗示手法展现邪恶的力量，取得了前所未有的成绩，将恐怖类型片提高到艺术片的高度。

《美狄亚》改编自古希腊欧里庇德斯的悲剧。美狄亚乃科尔喀斯国王埃厄忒斯之女，地狱女神的祭司，守护着神圣的金羊毛。然而，她爱上了前来盗取金羊毛的希腊英雄伊阿宋，不惜抛国弑兄，追随伊阿宋来到希腊。二人定居在科任托斯，育有二子。十余年后，出于私利的考虑，伊阿宋决定迎娶科任托斯王的女儿为妻。悲痛之下，美狄亚开始报复，她用巫术杀死了国王父女，又手刃两个儿子，乘龙车离去。

取材自欧洲民间的古老传说，由霍尔格•德莱克曼（Holger Drachmann）创作为五幕童话剧，德莱叶改编并搬上银幕。
在遥远的伊利里亚王国，老国王（Peter Jerndorff 彼得•詹道夫 饰）的女儿（Clara Pontoppidan 克莱拉•维斯 饰）天生丽质，美丽迷人，追求者络绎不绝。然而这位公主傲慢冷酷，完全不理会这些男人们的追求，甚至将他们严刑拷打。老国王看在眼里，急在心上。不久，丹麦的王子乔根（Svend Methling 斯万德•麦斯林 饰）带着仆人卡斯博•斯莫凯特（Hakon Ahnfelt-Rønne 饰）来到伊利里亚王国求婚，如预料的那样，他也遭遇了羞辱和挫折。
不过，他很快找到了对付这位刁蛮公主的办法……

卡隆堡宫亦即哈姆雷特城堡，坐落在西兰岛北部赫尔辛各市的海边，与瑞典的赫尔辛堡市隔海相望，地处波罗的海出港口之一的欧尔松海峡最窄的出口处，在哥本哈根市东北约45公里。卡隆堡宫意为“皇冠之宫”，始建于1574年，1585年竣工。资金来自菲特烈二世国王（1559－1588）对经过欧尔松海峡船只所征得的通行税。此堡由荷兰建筑师设计建造。宫殿用岩石砌成，褐色的铜屋顶气势雄伟、巍峨壮观，是北欧最精美的文艺复兴时期建筑风格的宫殿。在宫外院的墙上有一块莎士比亚的纪念浮雕像，相传当年莎士比亚就是以卡隆堡宫为背景写下了那不朽的悲剧《哈姆雷特》的。故卡隆堡宫又称为哈姆雷特城堡。
卡隆堡宫历史上曾两度被毁：第一次是在1623年，整个宫殿及宫内陈设全被焚为灰烬，唯一幸存的是宫内的教堂。直到1637年才被修复，宫内的结构有所改变，使之具有巴罗克建筑风格，宫外的屋顶由原来的圆形螺旋塔改为现在有尖塔顶。第二次“北欧战争”期间，瑞典人于1658－1660年占领卡隆堡宫，将宫内物品洗劫一空。
现在宫内的陈设全是根据当时情况复制的。到菲特烈四世国王（1699－1730）时，加强了克隆堡宫周围的防御工事，宫殿也不断得到修复。从1785年到1922年，卡隆堡宫曾被用作兵营。宫堡外围的火炮已有二、三百年的历史。
本片是由德莱叶拍摄于1955年的8分钟纪录短片。主要介绍了卡隆堡内的另一个城堡“克罗根”堡（Krogen）的一些逸闻趣事，大师拍风景，不可错过。