Only the latter portions of this film survive. It is the only film directed by 'Carl Dreyer' where something resembling a complete version does not exist. The recent DVD of the extant portions of this film, produced by the Danish Film Institute for sale to the public - though playable only in the European Region - reveals it is based on an operetta, which in turn was based on Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew". The first third (almost all of the sequences in the castle) survive ...[Read Story ]