Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath

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

194397 min8.0 / 10

A bleak, morally suffocating drama about superstition, hypocrisy, and inherited doom set in a witch-hunting village, where desire and family curse converge to seal a tragic fate.

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

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