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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.
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.
- 98 min
- 2.3K
- Shadows of the Dark
Day of Wrath: Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. With Kirsten Andreasen, Sigurd Berg, Harald Holst, Albert Høeberg. The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
- (11K)
- Drama, History
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- 1948-04-24
A day of wrath is that day, A day of trouble and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Isaiah 13:9. Verse Concepts. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
A 1943 Danish film about a pastor's wife who falls in love with her stepson in a repressive village. Directed by Carl Dreyer, a master of spiritual cinema, the film explores themes of morality, passion, and persecution.
- Absalon Pederssøn
The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark. In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft.
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.
