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Day of Wrath

Dark and powerful tale of love and betrayal, and a community gripped by an obsessive fear of witchcraft.

Period drama 1943 97 mins

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Rent for £3.50

Overview

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s dark and powerful tale of love and betrayal, and of a community gripped by an obsessive fear of witchcraft, is widely regarded to be one of the director’s greatest works.

In early seventeenth-century rural Denmark an old woman is hunted down and burned as a witch, despite the efforts of the parson’s young wife, Anne, to save her. Anne (whose own mother had been suspected of being a witch), is possessed by a secret passion for her stepson, a young man of her own age, and when her elderly husband dies she finds herself accused of using witchcraft to cause his death. Seen by some as an allegory of the Nazi occupation of Denmark and by others as an indictment of male domination and suppression of strong women, Day of Wrath has an extraordinary emotional intensity achieved by superb performances, and is a stunning example of the humanity, artistic power and technical mastery of Dreyer’s art.

Director

Carl Th. Dreyer

Featuring

Thorkild Roose , Lisbeth Movin and Sigrid Neiiendam

Genres

Period drama

Certificate

Contains implied torture, witch burning, and mild language

Country

Denmark

Language

Danish with English subtitles

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