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Day of Wrath (1943)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:20

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Carl Theodor Dreyer directed this austere and beautiful tragedy, set in 16th century Denmark. A pastor presides over a trial for witchcraft, ultimately finding the accused guilty. He sentences... Carl Theodor Dreyer directed this austere and beautiful tragedy, set in 16th century Denmark. A pastor presides over a trial for witchcraft, ultimately finding the accused guilty. He sentences her to death at the stake, but as she burns, the elderly woman screams out curses and accusations. Most damningly, she claims he spared another sorceress out of love for her daughter, Anne -- who has since become the pastor's wife. Her words remain in the cleric's mind, haunting him endlessly. And soon it seems as if the curses will come to pass, too, for Anne has begun a romance with her stepson... an affair that will have dire consequences for them all. [More]

Starring: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Sigrid Neiiendam

Starring: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Sigrid Neiiendam

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

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Nov 30, 1999

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • DTS Surround 5.1 - Danish
  • PCM Mono - Danish
  • Subtitles - English
 
 
 
 

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However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
10/23/08
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/28/08
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/28/08
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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A lesser Dreyer work, but only in comparison with his own achievements.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/27/08
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/25/08
Sara Cardace
Sara Cardace
New York Magazine
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Dryer's precision proves highly effective in creating the film's mood of dark oppression, and every detail is perfectly in keeping with the film's tone %u2013 which often resembles a thriller.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
07/12/08
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Dreyer's fluid, softly moving camera that takes in long, slow shots heightens the sensual nature of the film as well as its mystery.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
02/29/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/19/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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03/18/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

There couldn't be a clearer statement made about the powerful who persecute their subjects in the name of religion.

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07/26/05
Dennis Schwartz
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06/26/05
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01/14/05
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08/03/04
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07/30/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 parable about witch-finding and witch-burning in 17th-century Denmark is coldly brilliant.

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07/08/03
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

A compelling family melodrama and a sombre exploration of how men co-opt religious dogma to oppress and punish female desires.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/01/03
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
BBC

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.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
George Morris
George Morris
Austin Chronicle

Day of Wrath is probably the simplest of the Dreyer films that I've seen, but it is still a great work.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
03/05/02
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

Dreyer was a master of conveying emotion in a way that can only be called "literary"

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
09/10/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

A study of good and evil, repression and oppression, sexuality and guilt, Day of Wrath is a truly spiritual film.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
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