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Kasper Løvborg
rated 9

It may not be one of my two favorite Dreyer masterpieces ('Ordet' and 'La passion de Jeanne d'Arc') but it's an unusual and unforgettable film.

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Critic David Parkinson
rated 10

...a masterpiece of filmic and dramatic construction...

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Cast & Crew

Preben Lerdorff Rye
As Martin, Absalon's Son from First Marriage (uncredited)
Preben Neergaard
As Degn (uncredited)
Olaf Ussing
As Laurentius (uncredited)
Lisbeth Movin
As Anne Pedersdotter, Absalon's Second Wife (uncredited)
Emilie Nielsen
As (uncredited)
Kirsten Andreasen
As (uncredited)

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In 1623, the Day of Wrath, a young woman named Anne is married to an elderly pastor named Absalon in a small Danish village. She offers refuge to an old woman named Herlof's Marte, accused of witchcraft, and sparks a chain of events that will alter her life forever. As Anne's affection for Absalon's son, Martin, grows, she discovers her mother's dark history and faces accusations of witchcraft herself. Will Anne's fate be sealed by her family's past, or will she find a way to escape the witch-hunt?

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Day of Wrath was released in theaters on April 24, 1948.