Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor falls in love with his son when he returns to their small 17th century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village's harsh moral code has disastrous results: Anna faces the stake accused of witchcraft. Exquisitely photog
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The events in a nineteenth century Danish community which sees an accusation of witchcraft levelled against the wife of a Cathedral Notary. Danish dialogue.
In 17th century Denmark, the elderly Cathedral Notary Absalon Pedersson (Thorkild Roose) is cursed at the stake by an elderly peasant woman whom he has tortured into a confession of witchcraft. Soon after, Pedersson's young wife Anne (Ilsbeth Movin) begins an affair with Martin (Preben Ledorff Rye), Pedersson's son from an earlier marriage. When Anne tells Pedersson of her love for Martin the old man suffers a fatal heart attack, and Anne soon finds herself facing accusations of witchcraft. Carl Dreyer ('The Passion of Joan of Arc') directs.
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