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Day of Wrath is a danois film of genre Drama directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer released in USA on 24 april 1948 with Lisbeth Movin

Day of Wrath (1943)

Day of Wrath
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Released in USA 24 april 1948
Length 1h32
OriginDanemark
Genres Drama,    Horror,    Historical,    Romance
Rating80% 4.0473854.0473854.0473854.0473854.047385

Day of Wrath (Danish: Vredens Dag) is a black-and-white film, made in 1943, by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film is an adaptation of the 1909 Norwegian play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen, based on an actual Norwegian case in the sixteenth century.

Synopsis

Day of Wrath is set in a Danish village in 1623 where an old woman known as Herlof's Marte (Anna Svierkier) is accused of witchcraft. Anne (Lisbeth Movin), a young woman, is married to the aged local pastor, Absalon Pedersson (Thorkild Roose), who is involved with the trials of witches, and they live in a house shared with his strict, domineering mother Meret (Sigrid Neiiendam). Meret does not approve of Anne, who is much younger than her husband, being about the same age as the son from his first marriage. Anne gives Herlof's Marte refuge, but Marte is soon discovered in the house, though she is presumed to have hidden herself there without assistance. Herlof's Marte knows that Anne's mother, already dead at the time of the events depicted, had been accused of witchcraft as well, and had been spared thanks to Absalon's intervention, who aimed at marrying young Anne. Anne is thus informed by Herlof's Marte of her mother's power over people's life and death and becomes intrigued in the matter.

Actors

Lisbeth Movin

(Anne Pedersdotter, Absalon's second wife)Preben Lerdorff Rye

(Martin, Absalon's Son from First Marriage (uncredited))Olaf Ussing

(Laurentius (uncredited))Preben Neergaard

(Degn (uncredited))
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