Day Of Wrath

1943 · drama · Carl Th. Dreyer

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. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor, falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results. Exquisitely photographed and passionately acted, Day of Wrath remains an intense, unforgettable experience.