Day of wrath = Vredens dag [dvd] / Palladium Film ; [produced and directed by Carl Dreyer ; screenplay, Carl Dreyer, Mogens Skot-Hansen, Poul Knudsen].
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Anna Svierkier, Albert Høberg. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1943. Based on the play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wier-Jenssen. Aspect ratio 1.33:1. "Janus Films." Special features include: New digital transfer; deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skjødt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer, my métier, with actors Lisbeth Movin and Preben Lerdorff Rye; and stills gallery.
Summary:
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take the oath swearing she did not kill her husband. She seems to become what she is accused of being and in a strange ending refuses to take the oath.
Series:
Carl Theodor Dreyer collection Criterion collection ; 125 Classic collection
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