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Day of Wrath (Danish: Vredens dag) is a 1943 Danish drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose and Preben Lerdorff Rye. It is an adaptation of the 1909 play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen, based on a 16th century Norwegian case.
A classic film by Carl Theodor Dreyer about a witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark. The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son and faces the wrath of the church and the community.
En plena caza de brujas, Absalom, un viejo sacerdote, promete a una mujer condenada a muerte que salvará a su hija Anne de la hoguera si la joven accede a casarse con él. Según la ley, las descendientes de las brujas también deben arder en una pira.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.
A harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of social repression and paranoia, Day of Wrath is a 1943 Danish film by Carl Dreyer, made during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. The film depicts the consequences of Anna's affair with her stepson, who returns to their small village after the war, and the pastor's reaction to the situation.
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer • 1943 • Denmark. Starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam. Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer’s DAY OF WRATH (VREDENS DAG) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. A Drama of Fear and Superstition in the 20th Century. In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft.
