Denmark
1943
97 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
Danish
125
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.
| Lisbeth Movin | |
| Albert Høeberg | |
| Preben Lerdorff Rye | |
| Sigrid Neiiendam |
| Director | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| Screenplay | Carl Th. Dreyer |
| From a novel by | Hans Wiers-Jenssens |
| Producer | Carl Th. Dreyer and Tage Nielsen |
| Cinematography | Karl Andersson |
| Editing | Anne Marie Petersen and Edith Schlüssel |
| Music | Poul Schierbeck |
“Before there were Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, or Andrei Tarkovsky (not to mention Lars von Trier, Carlos Reygadas, and Guy Maddin), there was Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968), the original solitary, uncompromising film artist.” So begins J. Hoberman’s http://www.villagevoice...
I first encountered Carl Dreyer’s work in my teens, but it wasn’t until my forties that I began to be ready for it. I mainly had to rely on lousy 16-millimeter prints, so ruinous to the sounds and images of Day of Wrath that I could look at that film only as a form of painterly...
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