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The Bride of
Glomdal
[Glomdalsbruden]
(1926)

This rural drama, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, stars Einar Sissener and Tove Tellback, with Stub Wiberg, Harald Stormoen, Alfhild Stormoen, Oscar Larsen, Einar Tveito and Rasmus Rasmussen.

Danish Film Institute
201? DVD edition

Love One Another (1922), black & white, 95 minutes, not rated, with The Bride of Glomdal (1926), black & white, 74 minutes, not rated.

Danish Film Institute, distributed by Edition Filmmuseum,
no catalog number, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 25 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; Danish and English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 9 chapter stops; insert booklet; standard DVD keepcase; €19,95.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: Denmark •

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This DVD edition has been mastered from very-good to excellent 35mm print elements held by the Norsk Filminstitutt film archive. The transfer renders a finely-detailed picture, especially on systems capable of resolution upscaling. At times, on interior shots, the picture’s greyscale range runs a little dark.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on piano by Ronen Thalmay.

Supplemental material includes the Dreyer film, Love One Another, and an insert booklet with essays by Casper Tybjerg and Morten Egholm.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.