Day of Wrath

Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer's harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna (Lisbeth Movin), the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor (Thorkild Roose), falls in love with her stepson (Preben Lerdorff Rye) 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.