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the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath.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.在播磨，武藏一行遇见了上杉龙臣统领的大型武士团——上杉武士团。他们的目的是讨伐盘踞在淡路岛的巨大鬼神“炮战龙八岐大蛇”。在那里，还有武田尚虎率领的武田武士团，与武藏同龄的武士岛津秋弘、尼子胜巳，以及稍显不通世俗的腼腆公主猿渡满等人。 在各种想法翻涌的涡旋之中，武藏一行也加入了灭鬼的战斗。而他们要挑战的八岐大蛇，则是号称“从未被人伤及分毫”、铜墙铁壁般的鬼神。武藏和同伴们将要面对的，是一场前所未有的激战。武则天（刘嘉玲 饰）登基之前，修建了高达三百尺的通天浮屠。竣工之前，却先后发生命案：工部侍郎贾颐、大理寺卿薛勇（刘金山 饰）相继自焚而亡。监工沙陀（梁家辉 饰）称此二人因动通天柱之灵符而遭天谴。大理寺少卿裴东来（邓超 饰）、武后贴身侍卫上官静儿（李冰冰 饰）奉命调查，但国师陆离却指点此案需狄仁杰（刘德华 饰）查办。武后下旨，入狱八年的狄仁杰获释任钦差负责此案，却遭刺客袭击。所幸其早有防备，加之上官静儿陪护，得以脱身。狄仁杰排除了怀疑对象琅琊王李宵（姚鲁 饰），并拒绝了其对抗武后之约。狄仁杰发现，死者身中赤焰金龟之毒，遂带领裴东来、上官静儿夜访鬼市，希望从昔日太医汪驴口中获得真相，不想遭遇埋伏，疑似国师显身，杀手集结，令三人难以脱身。然而，一番缠斗之后，案情似乎有了水落石出的转机……
