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the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.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.
Loosely based on a real incident, 200: Halla Ho is the story of women, terrorised by a mobster whose gang raped, robbed, terrorised and murdered 300 families for 15 years until he met his nemesis in a young Dalit girl.（机翻:根据一件真实的事件改编，200:Hala Ho讲述了一个女人的故事，在15年的时间里，她被一名暴徒轮奸、抢劫、恐吓并杀害了300个家庭，直到他遇到了他的死对头一个年轻的贱民女孩。）Balli Chaudhary is a mobster, whose gang rapes, murders, robs and terrorises 300 families without any fear of law, for a period of 15 years. He takes special interest in using the rape threat to break and humiliate the Dalit community. He allegedly rapes over 40 women and children, gets arrested 14 times but is never sentenced, therefore he has no fear of law and randomly picks up any woman he fancies - irrespective of their age. The police refuse to help the Dalits and go on to sell out the complainants to Balli. His reign of terror continues till he meets his nemesis in a young and educated Dalit girl - Usha Narayane. She files and FIR against Balli, and when cornered by him and his gang, threatens to burn them down. This inspires the villagers to revolt against Balli and file 40 FIRs, however when all their hopes of getting justice vanish, the women of the basti decide to take matters into their own hands and make a fitting example out of Balli. The story of 200: Halla Ho, is loosely based on a real-life incident from Nagpur.机翻:Balli Chaudhary是一名暴徒，他在15年的时间里肆无忌惮地强奸、谋杀、抢劫和恐吓300个家庭。他对利用强奸威胁破坏和羞辱贱民社区特别感兴趣。据称，他强奸了40多名妇女和儿童，被捕14次，但从未被判刑，因此，他不惧怕法律，随意勾搭任何他喜欢的女人--无论她们的年龄如何。警察拒绝帮助达利特人，继续将申诉人出卖给Balli。他的恐怖统治一直持续下去，直到他遇到了他的死对头，一个受过良好教育的年轻贱民女孩--乌莎·纳拉扬。她冲向巴利，并逃跑，当他和他的团伙走投无路时，威胁要烧毁他们。这激发了村民对Balli的反抗，并提交了40份FIR，然而，当他们获得正义的所有希望化为泡影时，basti的妇女决定自己动手，并以Balli为榜样。200年的故事：Halla Ho，是松散地根据一个现实生活中的事件发生在那格浦尔）
