Day of Wrath
Extraordinary... Astonishing...Hypnotic.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago ReaderOne of the most completely moving films ever made.
– Pauline Kael- Restored 35mm Print
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath 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 17th-century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results. (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark 1943, 97m)