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Day of Wrath
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Not Rated
1943
1h 37m
Drama
,
History
8.1
100%
91%
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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.
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Cast of Day of Wrath
Thorkild Roose
Rev. Absalon Pederssøn (uncredited)
Lisbeth Movin
Anne Pedersdotter, Absalon's Second Wife (uncredited)
Preben Lerdorff Rye
Martin, Absalon's Son from First Marriage (uncredited)
Sigrid Neiiendam
Merete, Absalon's Mother (uncredited)
Anna Svierkier
Herlofs Marte (uncredited)
Albert Høeberg
The Bishop (uncredited)
Olaf Ussing
Laurentius (uncredited)
Preben Neergaard
Degn (uncredited)
Kirsten Andreasen
(uncredited)
Sigurd Berg
(uncredited)
Harald Holst
(uncredited)
Emanuel Jørgensen
(uncredited)
Sophie Knudsen
(uncredited)
Emilie Nielsen
(uncredited)
Hans Christian Sørensen
(uncredited)
Dagmar Wildenbrück
(uncredited)
Day of Wrath Reviews
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Dreyer goes to the Christian heart of the matter in this film. Damned powerful.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
There couldn't be a clearer statement made about the powerful who persecute their subjects in the name of religion.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Dreyer's impious, anarchic drama is a cry of rage at abusive authority, whether political, familial, religious, or moral; he celebrates erotic love as the natural order of things.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I'd be saving a spot for it near the top of my 10-best list if the movie hadn't been made 65 years ago.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Sara Cardace
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 masterpiece begins as a film about seventeenth-century witch hunts in Northern Europe, but it's really a psychological thriller about the pull of evil on weak souls.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Astonishing in its artistically informed period re-creation as well as its hypnotic mise en scene, it challenges the viewer by suggesting at times that witchcraft isn't so much an illusion as an activity produced by intolerance.
Austin Chronicle
George Morris
The triple crosses of faith, doubt, and heresy are borne by Dreyer's characters across a cinematic landscape of darkness and light, shadow and substance.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
This masterwork is as modern as Euripides, timeless as O'Neill and Arthur Miller, militant as Friedan or Steinem, and empathetically devastating as Hawthorne.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Anne is a romantic trapped in a vengeful world. Thus, she's doomed.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Dreyer's fluid, softly moving camera that takes in long, slow shots heightens the sensual nature of the film as well as its mystery.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Day of Wrath is probably the simplest of the Dreyer films that I've seen, but it is still a great work.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
Dreyer was a master of conveying emotion in a way that can only be called "literary"
TV Guide
A study of good and evil, repression and oppression, sexuality and guilt, Day of Wrath is a truly spiritual film.
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