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Holidays 8.14
Holidays
Air Force Day (Taiwan)
Até Asteroid Day
Balochistan Solidarity Day
Black Day (Parts of Pakistan)
Color Book Day
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
814 Day
Energy Industry Employee’s Day (Poland)
Engineer’s Day (Dominican Republic)
Falklands Discovery Day (UK)
Faradda di li candareri (Descent of the Candlesticks; Sardinia)
Feast of the Tiger (Elder Scrolls)
Green Day (South Korea)
Husbands in Love Day
International Memorial Day for Comfort Women
International Nagging Day
Kaj Munk (Lutheranism)
Language Day (Orania)
La Torta dei Fieschi (Italy)
Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts)
Love Donegal Day (UK)
Love Your Bookshop Day
Military Marriage Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Mortgage E-Close Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
National Slap Someone in the Back of the Head Day (Garfield)
National Spirit of ’45 Day
National Tattoo Removal Day
National Women’s Empowerment Day
Navajo Code Talkers Day
Oued Ed-Dahab Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (India)
Pramuka Day (Scouting Day; Indonesia)
Rapeseed Day (French Republic)
Romance Awareness Day
St. Arnold of Soissons' Day (patron saint of brewers and hop-pickers)
Social Security Day
Sports Day (Russia)
Tristan da Cunha (Saint Helena)
V-J Day
Wiffle Ball Day
World Calligraphy Day
World Lizard Day
World Prediabetes Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Altbier Day
Chock Full O’ Nuts Day
International Rosé Wine Day
National Creamsicle Day
Independence & Related Days
Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha; Saint Helena)
Anniversary of the Return to Power (Afghanistan)
Larsonia (a.k.a. Kingdom of Larsonia; Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Pakistan (from UK, 1947)
2nd Wednesday in August
Crayfish Premiere (Sweden) [2nd Wednesday]
Hump Day [Every Wednesday]
National Psychiatric Technician Appreciation Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]
World Calligraphy Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]
Weekly Holidays beginning August 14 (2nd Full Week of August)
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Weeks (thru 9.2)
Festivals Beginning August 14, 2024
Arkansas Valley Fair (Rocky Ford, Colorado) [thru 8.17]
Delcambre Shrimp Festival (Delcambre, Louisiana) [thru 8.18]
EAST (Suhl, Germany) [thru 8.18]
Gathering of the Juggalos (Thornville, Ohio) [thru 8.18]
Little League World Series (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.25]
Lyon County Fair (Marshall, Minnesota) [thru 8.18]
Middletown Grange Fair (Wrightstown, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.18]
Red Valley Festival (Olbia, Italy) [thru 8.17]
Sweet Corn Festival (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) [thru 8.18]
Telluride Mushroom Festival (Telluride, Colorado) [thru 8.18]
Washington County Fair (Richmond, Rhode Island) [thru 8.18]
Feast Days
Alice Adams (Writerism)
Anniversary of Snick-Snacker’s Derek Foot (Shamanism)
Arnold of Soissons (Christian; Saint) [brewers, hop-pickers]
Assumption Eve (France, Holy See)
Assumption Vigil (Vatican City)
Athanasia (Christian; Saint & Matron)
Buck Dharma Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Burryman Day (Scotland; Everyday Wicca)
Carle Vernet (Artology)
Claude Joseph Vernet (Artology)
Day of Peace Between Horus and Set (Ancient Egypt)
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia (Christian; Saint)
Eachanan (Christian; Saint)
Eusebius of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Torches, Day 2 (In Honor of Diana; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Gary Larson (Artology)
Jacques Coeur (Positivist; Saint)
John Galsworthy (Writerism)
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Marcellus of Apamea (Christian; Martyr)
Maximilian Kolbe (Christian; Saint)
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Artology)
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Artology)
Ready Eddie (Muppetism)
René Goscinny (Artology)
Rice and Millet Day (Pagan)
Think About Infinity Day (Pastafarian)
Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [45 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 37 of 60)
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland Ride, at Disneyland (Theme Park Attraction; 1958)
Baby Butch (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)
The Book of Psalms, published by Faust (Book; 1457)
Born To Do It, by Craig David (Album; 2000)
Busman’s Holiday (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1961)
Caligula (Adult Film; 1979)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Film; 1987)
Can’t Stand Losing You, by the Police (Song; 1978)
District 9 (Film; 2009)
Dora the Explorer (Animated TV Series; 2000)
The Commitments (Film; 1991)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (Anime Film; 2017)
Hang On Sloopy, by The McCoys (Song; 1965)
High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack Album; 2007)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Film; 1998)
The Kill Order, by James Dashner (Novel; 2012) [Maze Runner #4]
Lemonade, by Internet Money (Song; 2020)
Les Miserables (Film; 1952)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Film; 2015)
Ma Perkins (Radio Series; 1933)
¡Mucha Lucha! (Animated TV Series; 2002)
No Way Out (Film; 1987)
One Ham’s Family (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1943)
Ponyo (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 2009)
A Private Affair (Film; 1959)
The Quiet Man (Film; 1952)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)
The Saint Intervenes (a.k.a. Boodle), by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1934) [Saint #14]
Saturday the 14th (Film; 1981)
Slums of Beverly Hills (Film; 1998)
So It Goes, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1976)
The Spirit Room, by Michelle Branch (Album; 2001)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Animated Film; 2020)
Stop! Look! And Hasten! (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Straight Outta Compton (Film; 2015)
Student of Prague (BBC TV Film; 1938) [1st BBC Feature Film]
Tangled Television (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)
Ted Lasso (TV Series; 2020)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Film; 2009)
Il Turco in Italia (Turk in Italy), by Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1814)
The Way of the Dragon (Film; 1972)
Who’s Next, by The Who (Album; 1971)
Today’s Name Days
Maximilian (Austria)
Alfred, Euzebije, Maksimilijan (Croatia)
Alan (Czech Republic)
Eusebius (Denmark)
Gisella, Svea (Estonia)
Kanerva, Onerva (Finland)
Évrard (France)
Maximilian, Meinhard (Germany)
Marcell (Hungary)
Alfredo (Italy)
Virma, Zelma, Zemgus (Latvia)
Euzebijus, Grintautas, Guostė (Lithuania)
Hallgeir, Hallgjerd (Norway)
Alfred, Atanazja, Dobrowój, Euzebiusz, Kalikst, Kaliksta, Machabeusz (Poland)
Mojmír (Slovakia)
Maximiliano (Spain)
Uno (Sweden)
Anahi, Athena, Tamara, Tamia, Tammie, Tammy, Tara, Taryn, Terra (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 227 of 2024; 139 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 33 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 11 (Geng-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 10 Av 5784
Islamic: 8 Safar 1446
J Cal: 17 Purple; Threesday [17 of 30]
Julian: 1 August 2024
Moon: 70%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 2 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Jacques Coeur]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 56 of 94)
Week: 2nd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Leo (Day 24 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (a.k.a. Sextilis or Augustus; Julian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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Preben Lerdorff Rye in Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
Cast: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Birgitte Federspiel, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Cay Kristiansen, Ejner Federspiel, Gerda Nielsen, Sylvia Eckhausen, Ove Rud, Henry Skjaer. Screenplay: Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on a play by Kaj Munk Cinematography: Henning Bendtsen. Production design: Erik Aaes. Film editing: Edit Schlüssel. Music: Poul Schierbeck.
As a non-believer, I find the story told by Ordet objectively preposterous, but it raises all the right questions about the nature of religious belief. Ordet, the kind of film you find yourself thinking about long after it's over, is about the varieties of religious faith, from the lack of it, embodied by Mikkel Borgen (Emil Hass Christensen), to the mad belief of Mikkel's brother Johannes (Preben Lerdorff Rye) that he is in fact Jesus Christ. Although Mikkel is a non-believer, his pregnant wife, Inger (Birgitte Federspiel), maintains a simple belief in the goodness of God and humankind. The head of the Borgen family, Morten (Henrik Malberg), regularly attends church, but it's a relatively liberal modern congregation, headed by a pastor (Ove Rud) who denies the possibility of miracles in a world in which God has established physical laws, although he doesn't have a ready answer when he's asked about the miracles in the Bible. When Morten's youngest son, Anders (Cay Kristiansen), falls in love with a young woman (Gerda Nielsen), her father, Peter (Ejner Federspiel), who belongs to a very conservative sect, forbids her to marry Anders. Then everyone's faith or lack of it is put to test when Inger goes into labor. The doctor (Henry Skjaer) thinks he has saved her life by aborting the fetus, but Inger dies. As she is lying in her coffin, Peter arrives to tell Morten that her death has made him realize his lack of charity and that Anders can marry his daughter. Then Inger is restored to life with the help of Johannes and the simple faith of her young daughter. Embracing Inger, Mikkel now proclaims that he is a believer. The conundrum of faith and evidence runs through the film. For example, if the only thing that can restore one's faith is a miracle, can we really call that faith? What makes Ordet work -- in fact, what makes it a great film -- is that it poses such questions without attempting answers. It subverts all our expectations about what a serious-minded film about religion -- not the phony piety of Hollywood biblical epics -- should be. Dreyer and cinematographer Henning Bendtsen keep everything deceptively simple: Although the film takes place in only a few sparely decorated settings, the reliance on very long single takes and a slowly traveling camera has a documentary-like effect that engages a kind of conviction on the part of the audience that makes the shock of Inger's resurrection more unsettling. We don't usually expect to find our expectations about the way things are -- or the way movies should treat them -- so rudely and so provocatively exploded.
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Holidays 8.14
Holidays
Air Force Day (Taiwan)
Até Asteroid Day
Balochistan Solidarity Day
Black Day (Parts of Pakistan)
Color Book Day
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
814 Day
Energy Industry Employee’s Day (Poland)
Engineer’s Day (Dominican Republic)
Falklands Discovery Day (UK)
Faradda di li candareri (Descent of the Candlesticks; Sardinia)
Feast of the Tiger (Elder Scrolls)
Green Day (South Korea)
Husbands in Love Day
International Memorial Day for Comfort Women
International Nagging Day
Kaj Munk (Lutheranism)
Language Day (Orania)
La Torta dei Fieschi (Italy)
Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts)
Love Donegal Day (UK)
Love Your Bookshop Day
Military Marriage Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Mortgage E-Close Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
National Slap Someone in the Back of the Head Day (Garfield)
National Spirit of ’45 Day
National Tattoo Removal Day
National Women’s Empowerment Day
Navajo Code Talkers Day
Oued Ed-Dahab Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (India)
Pramuka Day (Scouting Day; Indonesia)
Rapeseed Day (French Republic)
Romance Awareness Day
St. Arnold of Soissons' Day (patron saint of brewers and hop-pickers)
Social Security Day
Sports Day (Russia)
Tristan da Cunha (Saint Helena)
V-J Day
Wiffle Ball Day
World Calligraphy Day
World Lizard Day
World Prediabetes Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Altbier Day
Chock Full O’ Nuts Day
International Rosé Wine Day
National Creamsicle Day
Independence & Related Days
Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha; Saint Helena)
Anniversary of the Return to Power (Afghanistan)
Larsonia (a.k.a. Kingdom of Larsonia; Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Pakistan (from UK, 1947)
2nd Wednesday in August
Crayfish Premiere (Sweden) [2nd Wednesday]
Hump Day [Every Wednesday]
National Psychiatric Technician Appreciation Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]
World Calligraphy Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]
Weekly Holidays beginning August 14 (2nd Full Week of August)
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Weeks (thru 9.2)
Festivals Beginning August 14, 2024
Arkansas Valley Fair (Rocky Ford, Colorado) [thru 8.17]
Delcambre Shrimp Festival (Delcambre, Louisiana) [thru 8.18]
EAST (Suhl, Germany) [thru 8.18]
Gathering of the Juggalos (Thornville, Ohio) [thru 8.18]
Little League World Series (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.25]
Lyon County Fair (Marshall, Minnesota) [thru 8.18]
Middletown Grange Fair (Wrightstown, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.18]
Red Valley Festival (Olbia, Italy) [thru 8.17]
Sweet Corn Festival (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) [thru 8.18]
Telluride Mushroom Festival (Telluride, Colorado) [thru 8.18]
Washington County Fair (Richmond, Rhode Island) [thru 8.18]
Feast Days
Alice Adams (Writerism)
Anniversary of Snick-Snacker’s Derek Foot (Shamanism)
Arnold of Soissons (Christian; Saint) [brewers, hop-pickers]
Assumption Eve (France, Holy See)
Assumption Vigil (Vatican City)
Athanasia (Christian; Saint & Matron)
Buck Dharma Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Burryman Day (Scotland; Everyday Wicca)
Carle Vernet (Artology)
Claude Joseph Vernet (Artology)
Day of Peace Between Horus and Set (Ancient Egypt)
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia (Christian; Saint)
Eachanan (Christian; Saint)
Eusebius of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Torches, Day 2 (In Honor of Diana; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Gary Larson (Artology)
Jacques Coeur (Positivist; Saint)
John Galsworthy (Writerism)
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Marcellus of Apamea (Christian; Martyr)
Maximilian Kolbe (Christian; Saint)
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Artology)
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Artology)
Ready Eddie (Muppetism)
René Goscinny (Artology)
Rice and Millet Day (Pagan)
Think About Infinity Day (Pastafarian)
Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [45 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 37 of 60)
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland Ride, at Disneyland (Theme Park Attraction; 1958)
Baby Butch (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)
The Book of Psalms, published by Faust (Book; 1457)
Born To Do It, by Craig David (Album; 2000)
Busman’s Holiday (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1961)
Caligula (Adult Film; 1979)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Film; 1987)
Can’t Stand Losing You, by the Police (Song; 1978)
District 9 (Film; 2009)
Dora the Explorer (Animated TV Series; 2000)
The Commitments (Film; 1991)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (Anime Film; 2017)
Hang On Sloopy, by The McCoys (Song; 1965)
High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack Album; 2007)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Film; 1998)
The Kill Order, by James Dashner (Novel; 2012) [Maze Runner #4]
Lemonade, by Internet Money (Song; 2020)
Les Miserables (Film; 1952)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Film; 2015)
Ma Perkins (Radio Series; 1933)
¡Mucha Lucha! (Animated TV Series; 2002)
No Way Out (Film; 1987)
One Ham’s Family (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1943)
Ponyo (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 2009)
A Private Affair (Film; 1959)
The Quiet Man (Film; 1952)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)
The Saint Intervenes (a.k.a. Boodle), by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1934) [Saint #14]
Saturday the 14th (Film; 1981)
Slums of Beverly Hills (Film; 1998)
So It Goes, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1976)
The Spirit Room, by Michelle Branch (Album; 2001)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Animated Film; 2020)
Stop! Look! And Hasten! (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Straight Outta Compton (Film; 2015)
Student of Prague (BBC TV Film; 1938) [1st BBC Feature Film]
Tangled Television (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)
Ted Lasso (TV Series; 2020)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Film; 2009)
Il Turco in Italia (Turk in Italy), by Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1814)
The Way of the Dragon (Film; 1972)
Who’s Next, by The Who (Album; 1971)
Today’s Name Days
Maximilian (Austria)
Alfred, Euzebije, Maksimilijan (Croatia)
Alan (Czech Republic)
Eusebius (Denmark)
Gisella, Svea (Estonia)
Kanerva, Onerva (Finland)
Évrard (France)
Maximilian, Meinhard (Germany)
Marcell (Hungary)
Alfredo (Italy)
Virma, Zelma, Zemgus (Latvia)
Euzebijus, Grintautas, Guostė (Lithuania)
Hallgeir, Hallgjerd (Norway)
Alfred, Atanazja, Dobrowój, Euzebiusz, Kalikst, Kaliksta, Machabeusz (Poland)
Mojmír (Slovakia)
Maximiliano (Spain)
Uno (Sweden)
Anahi, Athena, Tamara, Tamia, Tammie, Tammy, Tara, Taryn, Terra (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 227 of 2024; 139 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 33 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 11 (Geng-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 10 Av 5784
Islamic: 8 Safar 1446
J Cal: 17 Purple; Threesday [17 of 30]
Julian: 1 August 2024
Moon: 70%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 2 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Jacques Coeur]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 56 of 94)
Week: 2nd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Leo (Day 24 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (a.k.a. Sextilis or Augustus; Julian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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Natten til torsdag kl. 01.45 blev en patrulje opmærksom på to biler, der kørte i høj fart sydpå ad Jyllands Allé i Viby. Patruljen kørte efter for at bringe bilerne til standsning, og da den ene standsede i krydset Rosenvangs Allé/Kaj Munks Vej, steg en af betjentene hurtigt ud og tog kontakt til den 39-årige mand bag rattet. Han var frakendt førerretten og virkede påvirket af stoffer, og blev derfor anholdt og sigtet for narkokørsel og kørsel uden førerret. Under en ransagning af bilen fandt politiet to knive, og han blev derfor også sigtet for overtrædelse af knivloven. I mellemtiden fik kollegaen til betjenten lidt længere fremme standset den anden bil. Her blev den 20-årige mandlige fører sigtet for narkokørsel, og kort efter blev både han og den 20-årige mand på passagersædet sigtet for besiddelse af euforiserende stoffer med henblik på salg. I bilen lå der nemlig flere salgsposer med amfetamin, som politiet beslaglagde med henblik på konfiskation.
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Ordet (Gustav Molander, 1943)
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Ordet (1955)
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Kai Normann Andersen (April 11, 1900 - 1967) was a Danish composer of popular songs for film and cabaret. He wrote over 900 melodies, many of which have become Danish evergreens. 12 of them were included in the Danish Cultural Canon in 2006...
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Ordet (1955, Denmark)
By the 1950s, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer had made eleven films. However, his last three works were victims of circumstance. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) consistently ranks high in film critics’ lists of the greatest movies ever made, but it offended ardent French nationalists who resisted the idea of a Dane directing a movie about one of the nation’s secondary patron saints. Vampyr (1932), in its stillness and languor befitting its disturbing atmosphere, was despised by audiences – including a riot from Viennese moviegoers demanding a refund – expecting more action. Day of Wrath (1943) released a firestorm of controversy in Nazi-occupied Denmark because of its allegory about living under an authoritarian regime. All three of these films were commercial failures. All three of these films are today considered cinematic exemplars.
Danish movie producers might have sneezed, claiming imaginary allergies, at the notion of financing the next Dreyer film, but the Danish government decided to reward Dreyer – struggling with finances after World War II – with a lifelong lease to the Dagmar, the state arthouse movie theater. With a morsel of the Dagmar’s profits, Dreyer sought a project he could make on a shoestring budget. Dreyer’s twelfth film would be Ordet (“The Word” in English), based on a play of the same name by Lutheran pastor Kaj Munk. Ordet is a severe film that never loses hold of an attentive viewer. It contains a provocative ending that cannot (and will not) be spoiled, and it is an ideal follow-up to The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath in that this piece examines the nature of faith. Instead of probing why the film’s characters believe (or don’t believe) in God, its focus is instead on how the characters express their belief.
In the autumn of 1925, widowed Borgen family patriarch Morten (Henrik Malberg) is a devout farmer soon to be busy with doting on his third, incoming grandchild. Morten has three sons: his eldest, Mikkel (Emil Hass Christensen), is agnostic, married to Inger (Birgitte Federspeil), and the couple have taken care of Morten’s two grandchildren; middle son Johannes (Preben Lerdorff Rye) went mad studying Søren Kierkegaard’s texts and now believes himself to be Jesus Christ; and youngest son Anders (Cay Kristiansen), the center of the film’s attention for a plurality of its runtime, is lovesick. The entire Borgen family lives under the same roof – creating tension, but Morten is nevertheless proud of “Borgensfarm”.
Anders and Anne Petersen (Gera Nielsen) wish to marry. Anne’s father Peter (Ejner Federspiel), is the local leader of the conservative Inner Mission sect of Lutheranism; Anders and Anne correctly believe he will oppose the marriage. Peter’s standoffish rejection inspires Morten – also originally in opposition – to change his mind. He stomps over to Peter’s residence, arriving mid-sermon, and failing to sway his friend. Peter’s telephone rings as they argue, and Peter must bear news of a family emergency at Borgensfarm.
Pacing and an intricate plot are of no concern to Dreyer. For the film’s opening two-thirds, Dreyer – who wrote the adapted screenplay – takes all the time needed to let the audience know the lives of the Borgens. The love shared between all three generations of the Borgen family is never questioned, although their understanding of and relationship with God differs. Because of my lack of religious belief, I do not know how to accurately describe Dreyer’s comparison of Morten and Peter other than the former is less beholden to religious dogma than the latter. The agnostic Mikkel believes God as essentially dead, forsaking long ago the children of Earth to the kindness and cruelty of their neighbors. No one in the Borgen household condemns or lampoons Mikkel for not believing. Certainly not Inger, who sympathizes with this struggle of faith. Not even Johannes, the most difficult son to truly understand. Johannes, speaking Jesus’ words from scripture and words that one could imagine Jesus might have said in rural 1920s Denmark, appears as a cloud-gazing, simply-clothed itinerant by day. His words are lofty, his speech deliberate, his empty gaze distancing him from those who surround him. He asks others to pray and believe, never wrathful if they do not listen or heed his advice. By night, he returns home as he always has done. Though he no longer addresses his father, brothers, sister-in-law, and nieces as his father, brothers, sister-in-law, and nieces, they still treat him as family – even though they do not accept him as Christ. For Anders, he is obviously preoccupied with the woman he loves.
Ordet is structured around the domestic lives and habits of its characters – it is akin to free verse poetry, resisting any attempts at novelistic analysis. Characters fully express themselves, and dialogue never overlaps between speakers (even in argument). There is silence after completed statements of opinion and revelation. In that silence, Dreyer’s camera captures the listener’s reaction (except for Johannes, who does not visually react): contentment, disbelief, amusement, concern, horror, understanding. This is executed in the mostly empty spaces of the Borgen household, against clear backdrops. In the dialogue pauses during and between conversations, all one can hear is ambient noise: the floorboards creaking as a character is making their way across the room, the clock ticking in the parlor room, someone shuffling positions in their chair. Cinematographer Henning Bendtsen (1959’s Boy of Two Worlds, 1991’s Europa) keeps his camera distant – of Ordet’s 114 total shots (averaging more than sixty seconds each between cuts), only three are close-ups. It is as if there is a presence accompanying the characters even in the most ordinary scenes, but that presence is something unknowable, something beyond an individual’s understanding of God.
Bendtsen’s mastery of mise en scène (a concept that is generally defined as the combination of set design, shot composition, and actor placement to empower cinematic or theatrical art) culminates when Mikkel’s oldest daughter, Maren (Ann Elisabeth Groth), walks into the parlor room to see her uncle Johannes waiting in the dark. Inger has gone into labor; her pregnancy endangering her life. Maren has overheard how perilous her mother’s situation is from the adults and cannot sleep.
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She asks Johannes if her mother will die soon; he responds, “Do you want her to, little girl?” The camera cuts. “Yes, because then you’ll bring her back to life, won’t you?” It is a curious response that raises unanswered questions how Mikkel’s two girls view Johannes as an uncle and as a self-proclaimed Christ. The others will not allow me to perform this miracle, notes Johannes, as the camera begins to slowly revolve around them. Maren and Johannes have a late-night conversation about what happens when a mother goes to heaven and miracles. The gradual dolly shot going across Johannes and Maren’s front sides display the empty depths of the parlor room, suggesting something there. Again, it suggests something beyond our conception of God. Maren and Johannes’ conversation adds to this, as Johannes comforts Maren, imparting that mothers will be with their children even in death, without the stress of other things during the day. In three minutes, a creaking floorboard, ticking clock, Johannes’ blank face, and the familial tenderness between the two actors have encapsulated what Ordet conveys to open-minded viewers of all faiths.
All of this is demanding, in different ways, for the acting ensemble and the audience. In many films (especially today’s cinema), editors will cut quickly from reactions to dialogue or during dialogue – serving to either undermine an actor’s ability or conceal their shortcomings. Because of the camerawork and minimal editing, there is little room for any mediocre acting to hide in Ordet (which contains stellar performances from its ensemble), a production that asks its actors to inhabit their characters for lengthy stretches without a cut. In a way, this harkens to Ordet’s background as a stage play, but the film adaptation does not feel stage-bound. For the audience, the barely moving camera and thoughtful pace can be an impediment to the impatient. But I suspect many viewers – as I did – will have difficulty unpackaging Johannes. Johannes, with all credit to Preben Lerdorff Rye, seems like he accidentally walked onto the wrong movie set and began acting thinking he was shooting for that other production. That last sentence could be construed as disparagement, but it is not – Rye’s performance befits the character, and Dreyer’s intention to perplex viewers with Johannes’ presence is controlled and purposeful.
Johannes’ presence in Ordet strikes at unsettling ideas for Christians and non-Christians alike, and these conflicting ideas are integral to the film’s controversial final ten minutes. In contrast to Morten’s comfortable, undemanding religiosity and the Inner Mission’s stringent emphasis on dogma, Johannes’ claims to be Christ is unnerving. The New Testament is filled with parables, gospels, and miracles told and performed by Christ. The Borgen family and the Inner Mission sect adherents would rather Jesus be dead, with God’s physical embodiment and judgment removed from the corporeal world humans share, than believe Johannes to be the son of God. Every character in Ordet except Johannes believes that the days of God’s miracles have passed; to some viewers, the film may seem to endorse this view. But Dreyer’s intentions are not to evangelize on behalf of any Christian belief – Dreyer, according to film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, was not religious and his occasional visits to a French Reformed church were attempts to familiarize himself with Christian colloquialisms for his film projects. Dreyer wants to understand how religion plays a role in the lives of the Borgens and the film’s secondary characters and how they express their faith. He succeeds.
By the time Ordet’s final act begins, the viewer is probably still wondering how such an apparently simple film that may have bored them in the opening half-hour has convinced them to finish it – barreling into the thickets of one’s soul with unexpected force. Dreyer and the actors have outlined their characters completely, allowing observant viewers intuit each character’s reactions to the mundane and the sublime. The film’s paradoxical and transcendent conclusion provides these characters and the audience an ending that we desperately desire, but also challenges that desire to question our faith.
For the first time since the silent era, Carl Theodor Dreyer had made a film that was instantly acclaimed by critics and audiences in Denmark and abroad – including receiving the Golden Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival and a joint Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film shared with four other movies. Despite Ordet’s success, Dreyer would continue to struggle in finding funds to make another film. Dreyer made only one more film in Gertrud (1964), and a long-gestating project about Jesus (no surprise that Dreyer would consider making such a film) never came to fruition, although a manuscript outlining the film was published in 1968.
As someone who was never raised with much of an understanding of the Abrahamic religions, I nevertheless find films commenting about the nature of religious belief fascinating. Almost all these films, due to demographics and religious history, have been within Christianity’s folds. Too often faith is held as a nightstick for comic or dramatic purposes in narrative art – and this sort of art is neither challenging nor rewarding for anyone. In recent years, I have found glorious exceptions from Old Hollywood and in non-English-language cinema that put to shame the evangelical-specific, exclusionary present of the American Christian film industry. Ordet is arguably one of the most exacting and illuminating religious films ever made. Late in Ordet, Dreyer’s film finds itself in a wallow of despair and ends with spirits exultant. Its ending – one that I desired – still leaves me uplifted and horrified.
My rating: 10/10
^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).
For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.
#Ordet#Carl Theodor Dreyer#Henrik Malberg#Emil Hass Christensen#Birgitte Federspiel#Preben Lerdorff Rye#Cay Kristiansen#Ejner Federspiel#Gerda Nielsen#Henning Bendtsen#Kaj Munk#TCM#My Movie Odyssey
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Portrait of Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, priest, and patriot who was a rare exponent of religious drama with a strong sense of the theatre. He revived the “heroic” Shakespearean and Schillerian drama with writing whose passionate quality is not often found among Danish writers.
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Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Kaj Munk (1898-1944) was a Danish priest and author who sacrificed his life for the truth during WWII. This year it was 80 years ago the Germans occupied our country, they censured our ability to talk and write what we wanted.
As a toddler, he became an orphan, and an elderly couple adopted him and encouraged him to study and write poems. They understood that he was a highly gifted boy.
A bronze bust of Kaj Munk in the Vedersoe Churchyard
Kaj Munk wrote theatre plays like preachings and preached like theatre plays. For more on his life, my husband Henry wrote a blogpost on Kaj Munk last year.
The interior of Vedsersoe Church
The alter from 1700 in Vedsersoe Church
Detail of stone decorations at Vedersoe church
The pulpit from 1615 of Vedersoe church
During the war, Kaj Munk did not bow down but continued to speak to his congregation and theatre customers about the truth and his convictions in questions of life and death. He didn’t consider the possibility of going into hiding.
Vedersoe church (from 1100-1250) and churchyard
On his last preaching on New Years Day January 1 1944, he stood in the church with his coat on. He couldn’t go to the pulpit. He claimed that it saddened him that some of his parishioners voluntarily worked for the Germans on the Atlantic Wall and he asked them to stop their collaboration immediately. That day marked his twentieth anniversary as a vicar in that parish.
The sand dunes close to Vedersoe where Kaj Munk worked as a priest from 1924-1944
The sand dunes close to Vedersoe where Kaj Munk worked as a priest from 1924-1944
On the evening of January 4, 1944, a Nazi terrorist group came to his house in West Jutland got him in their car and drove away. The next morning somebody found his dead body in a ditch near Silkeborg. His wife and five children were now left without him.
The place where Kaj Munk´s body was found 75 years after the murder
The stone cross in remembrance of Kaj Munk at the place where his body was found
Kaj Munk had a humorous side. He had a man working at the vicarage who wanted a recommendation for his new job. Kaj Munk then wrote that this man was never late for the meals and the utensils or working clothes didn’t wear out. His helper had been very precise in leaving his job early every day and never missed a chance to chat or to rest.
He had chosen a place right at the wall of the old church so that he would be able to hear if the organist remembered all the verses in the hymns.
Kaj Munk’s gravestone in the Vedsersoe Churchyard adjacent to the church wall
Kaj Munk loved driving fast in his car and once he had an accident where he told the policeman that he had met a lamppost in the middle of the road. During the war, he might have been permitted to drive as a vicar.
He was loved by his congregation as he often visited them all. Most of them were impoverished fishermen living in a remote and windy Danish parish.
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The vicarage was saved in the last minute and restored in 2013 to become a permanent museum and learning centre about Kaj Munk’s life.
Kaj Munk Kaj Munk (1898-1944) was a Danish priest and author who sacrificed his life for the truth during WWII.
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Holidays
Air Force Day (Taiwan)
Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha; Saint Helena)
Assumption Eve (France, Holy See)
Balochistan Solidarity Day
Color Book Day
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
814 Day
Engineer’s Day (Dominican Republic)
Falklands Discovery Day
Faradda di li candareri (Descent of the Candlesticks; Sardinia)
Feast of the Tiger (Elder Scrolls)
Green Day (South Korea)
Husbands in Love Day
International Memorial Day for Comfort Women
International Nagging Day
Kaj Munk (Lutheranism)
La Torta dei Fieschi (Italy)
Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts)
Love Donegal Day (UK)
Love Your Bookshop Day
Military Marriage Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
National Slap Someone in the Back of the Head Day (Garfield)
National Spirit of ’45 Day
National Tattoo Removal Day
Navajo Code Talkers Day
Oued Ed-Dahab Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (India)
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Rapeseed Day (French Republic)
Romance Awareness Day
St. Arnold of Soissons' Day (patron saint of brewers and hop-pickers)
Social Security Day
Sports Day (Russia)
Tristan da Cunha (Saint Helena)
V-J Day
Wiffle Ball Day
World Calligraphy Day
World Lizard Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Altbier Day
Chock Full O’ Nuts Day
International Rosé Wine Day
National Creamsicle Day
2nd Monday in August
Eleanor Roosevelt Day [2nd Monday]
Victory Day (Rhode Island) [2nd Monday]
Independence Days
Larsonia (a.k.a. Kingdom of Larsonia; Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Pakistan (from UK, 1947)
Feast Days
Arnold of Soissons (Christian; Saint) [brewers, hop-pickers]
Assumption Vigil (Vatican City)
Buck Dharma Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Carle Vernet (Artology)
Day of Peace Between Horus and Set (Ancient Egypt)
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia (Christian; Saint)
Eusebius of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Jacques Coeur (Positivist; Saint)
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Maximilian Kolbe (Christian; Saint)
Ready Eddie (Muppetism)
Rice and Millet Day (Pagan)
Think About Infinity Day (Pastafarian)
Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [45 of 71]
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 37 of 60)
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland Ride, at Disneyland (Theme Park Attraction; 1958)
Born To Do It, by Craig David (Album; 2000)
Caligula (Adult Film; 1979)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Film; 1987)
Can’t Stand Losing You, by the Police (Song; 1978)
District 9 (Film; 2009)
Dora the Explorer (Animated TV Series; 2000)
The Commitments (Film; 1991)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (Anime Film; 2017)
Hang On Sloopy, by The McCoys (Song; 1965)
High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack Album; 2007)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Film; 1998)
The Kill Order, by James Dashner (Novel; 2012) [Maze Runner #4]
Lemonade, by Internet Money (Song; 2020)
Les Miserables (Film; 1952)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Film; 2015)
Ma Perkins (Radio Series; 1933)
No Way Out (Film; 1987)
Ponyo (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 2009)
A Private Affair (Film; 1959)
The Quiet Man (Film; 1952)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)
Slums of Beverly Hills (Film; 1998)
So It Goes, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1976)
The Spirit Room, by Michelle Branch (Album; 2001)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Animated Film; 2020)
Stop! Look! And Hasten! (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Straight Outta Compton (Film; 2015)
Student of Prague (BBC TV Film; 1938) [1st BBC Feature Film]
Ted Lasso (TV Series; 2020)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Film; 2009)
The Way of the Dragon (Film; 1972)
Who’s Next, by The Who (Album; 1971)
Today’s Name Days
Maximilian (Austria)
Alfred, Euzebije, Maksimilijan (Croatia)
Alan (Czech Republic)
Eusebius (Denmark)
Gisella, Svea (Estonia)
Kanerva, Onerva (Finland)
Évrard (France)
Maximilian, Meinhard (Germany)
Marcell (Hungary)
Alfredo (Italy)
Virma, Zelma, Zemgus (Latvia)
Euzebijus, Grintautas, Guostė (Lithuania)
Hallgeir, Hallgjerd (Norway)
Alfred, Atanazja, Dobrowój, Euzebiusz, Kalikst, Kaliksta, Machabeusz (Poland)
Mojmír (Slovakia)
Maximiliano (Spain)
Uno (Sweden)
Anahi, Athena, Tamara, Tamia, Tammie, Tammy, Tara, Taryn, Terra (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 226 of 2024; 139 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 33 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 28 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 27 Av 5783
Islamic: 27 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 16 Hasa; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 1 August 2023
Moon: 3%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 2 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Jacques Coeur]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 54 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 23 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (a.k.a. Sextilis or Augustus; Julian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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What is, therefore, our task today? Shall I answer: "Faith, hope, and love”? That sounds beautiful. But I would say--courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature...we lack a holy rage--the recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth...a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth, and the destruction of God's world. To rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and against the madness of militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God. And remember the signs of the Christian Church have been the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish...but never the chameleon.
Kaj Munk, a Lutheran pastor murdered by Nazis for his opposition during the occupation of Denmark
#christianity#kaj munk had some really suspect beliefs bordering on fascism imo#but i appreciate the sentiment here
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Holidays
Air Force Day (Taiwan)
Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha; Saint Helena)
Assumption Eve (France, Holy See)
Balochistan Solidarity Day
Color Book Day
Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
814 Day
Engineer’s Day (Dominican Republic)
Falklands Discovery Day
Faradda di li candareri (Descent of the Candlesticks; Sardinia)
Feast of the Tiger (Elder Scrolls)
Green Day (South Korea)
Husbands in Love Day
International Memorial Day for Comfort Women
International Nagging Day
Kaj Munk (Lutheranism)
La Torta dei Fieschi (Italy)
Liberty Tree Day (Massachusetts)
Love Donegal Day (UK)
Love Your Bookshop Day
Military Marriage Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
National Slap Someone in the Back of the Head Day (Garfield)
National Spirit of ’45 Day
National Tattoo Removal Day
Navajo Code Talkers Day
Oued Ed-Dahab Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (India)
Pramuka Day (Scouting Day; Indonesia)
Rapeseed Day (French Republic)
Romance Awareness Day
St. Arnold of Soissons' Day (patron saint of brewers and hop-pickers)
Social Security Day
Sports Day (Russia)
Tristan da Cunha (Saint Helena)
V-J Day
Wiffle Ball Day
World Calligraphy Day
World Lizard Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Altbier Day
Chock Full O’ Nuts Day
International Rosé Wine Day
National Creamsicle Day
2nd Monday in August
Eleanor Roosevelt Day [2nd Monday]
Victory Day (Rhode Island) [2nd Monday]
Independence Days
Larsonia (a.k.a. Kingdom of Larsonia; Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]
Pakistan (from UK, 1947)
Feast Days
Arnold of Soissons (Christian; Saint) [brewers, hop-pickers]
Assumption Vigil (Vatican City)
Buck Dharma Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Carle Vernet (Artology)
Day of Peace Between Horus and Set (Ancient Egypt)
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia (Christian; Saint)
Eusebius of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Jacques Coeur (Positivist; Saint)
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Maximilian Kolbe (Christian; Saint)
Ready Eddie (Muppetism)
Rice and Millet Day (Pagan)
Think About Infinity Day (Pastafarian)
Werenfrid (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [45 of 71]
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 37 of 60)
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland Ride, at Disneyland (Theme Park Attraction; 1958)
Born To Do It, by Craig David (Album; 2000)
Caligula (Adult Film; 1979)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Film; 1987)
Can’t Stand Losing You, by the Police (Song; 1978)
District 9 (Film; 2009)
Dora the Explorer (Animated TV Series; 2000)
The Commitments (Film; 1991)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (Anime Film; 2017)
Hang On Sloopy, by The McCoys (Song; 1965)
High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack Album; 2007)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Film; 1998)
The Kill Order, by James Dashner (Novel; 2012) [Maze Runner #4]
Lemonade, by Internet Money (Song; 2020)
Les Miserables (Film; 1952)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Film; 2015)
Ma Perkins (Radio Series; 1933)
No Way Out (Film; 1987)
Ponyo (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 2009)
A Private Affair (Film; 1959)
The Quiet Man (Film; 1952)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)
Slums of Beverly Hills (Film; 1998)
So It Goes, by Nick Lowe (Song; 1976)
The Spirit Room, by Michelle Branch (Album; 2001)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Animated Film; 2020)
Stop! Look! And Hasten! (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)
Straight Outta Compton (Film; 2015)
Student of Prague (BBC TV Film; 1938) [1st BBC Feature Film]
Ted Lasso (TV Series; 2020)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Film; 2009)
The Way of the Dragon (Film; 1972)
Who’s Next, by The Who (Album; 1971)
Today’s Name Days
Maximilian (Austria)
Alfred, Euzebije, Maksimilijan (Croatia)
Alan (Czech Republic)
Eusebius (Denmark)
Gisella, Svea (Estonia)
Kanerva, Onerva (Finland)
Évrard (France)
Maximilian, Meinhard (Germany)
Marcell (Hungary)
Alfredo (Italy)
Virma, Zelma, Zemgus (Latvia)
Euzebijus, Grintautas, Guostė (Lithuania)
Hallgeir, Hallgjerd (Norway)
Alfred, Atanazja, Dobrowój, Euzebiusz, Kalikst, Kaliksta, Machabeusz (Poland)
Mojmír (Slovakia)
Maximiliano (Spain)
Uno (Sweden)
Anahi, Athena, Tamara, Tamia, Tammie, Tammy, Tara, Taryn, Terra (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 226 of 2024; 139 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 33 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 28 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 27 Av 5783
Islamic: 27 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 16 Hasa; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 1 August 2023
Moon: 3%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 2 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Jacques Coeur]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 54 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 23 of 31)
Calendar Changes
August (a.k.a. Sextilis or Augustus; Julian Calendar) [Month 8 of 12]
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Ordet (Gustav Molander, 1943)
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Ordet is a Danish movie, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a play by Kaj Munk
en dag kommer jag se ordet, but it is not this day
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