Day of Wrath(Vredens dag)
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Denmark · 1943
1h 37m
Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Sigrid Neiiendam
Genre Drama
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In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman is forced to marry an aging pastor after her late mother was accused of witchcraft but falls in love with his son. Her confession of this illicit affair to her husband brings on her husband's death. When she is accused of being a witch, will her lover come to her defense, or has the day of wrath returned?
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A film with an almost extra-diegetic power, worth paying attention to how Dreyer articulates a natural and worldly response to problems of belief