# Day of Wrath (1943)

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**Original title**: *Vredens dag*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Carl Theodor Dreyer
**Written by**: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Mogens Skot-Hansen, Paul La Cour
**Starring**: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Sigrid Neiiendam, Anna Svierkier, Albert Høeberg

> *A Drama of Fear and Superstition in the 20th Century.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The Salem witch trials meet *Breaking the Waves*. A pastor’s wife in 1620s Denmark shelters a witch-hunted woman until village pressure turns her husband’s mercy into complicity. Her own spectral inheritance becomes inescapable. The cold Danish wind carries the whole thing.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread

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