14 These details are taken from Drouzy, 1982, p. 223. Drouzy’s conclusion is very different from my own. He sees Dreyer’s interest in the private life of Maria von Platen as an excuse to visit the area of Sweden where his late mother grew up. Drouzy’s book is an attempt to prove that Dreyer in all his films is seeking the mother whom he never knew, because she conceived him out of wedlock and therefore had to put him up for adoption shortly after he was born.