Figuring Out Day of Wrath
By August 20, 2001
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 Read more »
SYNOPSIS: 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.
| 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 |
By August 20, 2001
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 Read more »
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