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Day Of Wrath
1943
The events in a nineteenth century Danish community which sees an accusation of witchcraft levelled against the wife of a Cathedral Notary. Danish dialogue. Read more
| Director | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
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| Genres | Drama |
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Day Of Wrath
The events in a nineteenth century Danish community which sees an accusation of witchcraft levelled against the wife of a Cathedral Notary. Danish dialogue.
| Director | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
|---|---|
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2006 Production year: 1943 |
| Format | DVD |
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Put to the stake for witchcraft, a woman (Anna Svierkier) places a curse on the pastor (Thorkild Roose) who condemned her. Disaster and death are then visited upon the pastor and his family, beginning with his discovery that his wife (Lisbeth Movin) is having an affair with a younger man (Preben Lerdoff Rye). Made by Denmark's great genius of the cinema, Carl Th Dreyer (his first film since Vampyr a decade earlier), this is a coldly uncompromising vision of human frailty, stupidity, bigotry and cruelty, made all the more horrifying by the startling beauty of its images. Not an easy experience, but a rewarding one.
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Harrowing, spellbinding melodrama with a message, moving in a series of Rembrandtesque compositions from one horrifying sequence to another. Depressing, but marvellous.
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful
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A masterwork
This is only the second Dreyer film that I have seen. On that evidence it seems to me that Dreyer is one of the greatest artists who worked in cinema. This is a harrowing film to watch because we know from the earliest frames that it will work out tragically. I am sure many will press eject turned off by the 'doom and gloom' of this Dane. Stay the course if you can because you will be privileged to see one of the best studies of the dilema of the individual in society that has been created in any medium. Dreyer is a consumate director whose pictures and sound and performances cohere into a compelling unity. Made during the Nazi occupation in the 2nd world war and under their very noses this is a triumphant plea for individual freedom in the face of one of the most evil ideologies in human history.
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
A masterwork
This is only the second Dreyer film that I have seen. On that evidence it seems to me that Dreyer is one of the greatest artists who worked in cinema. This is a harrowing film to watch because we know from the earliest frames that it will work out tragically. I am sure many will press eject turned off by the 'doom and gloom' of this Dane. Stay the course if you can because you will be privileged to see one of the best studies of the dilema of the individual in society that has been created in any medium. Dreyer is a consumate director whose pictures and sound and performances cohere into a compelling unity. Made during the Nazi occupation in the 2nd world war and under their very noses this is a triumphant plea for individual freedom in the face of one of the most evil ideologies in human history.
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