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Vredens Dag (1943)
AKAs:
Day of Wrath (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036506/
Criterion # 125
http://www.criterion.com/films/442
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
'Before there were Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, or Andrei Tarkovsky (not to mention Lars von Trier, Carlos Reygadas, and Guy Maddin), there was Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968), the original solitary, uncompromising film artist.'
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Description: Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor, falls in love with her stepson 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.
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.26 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy
Time (main feature): 97 minutes
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: Danish
Subtitles: English
DISC FEATURES:
# New digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Henning Bendtsen.
# Deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skjodt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer--My Metier, with actors Lisbeth Movin and Preben Lerdorff Rye.
# Stills gallery.
# Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.
PART OF FOUR-DISC BOXSET 'CARL THEODOR DREYER':
Day of Wrath
Carl Th. Dreyer, 1943
The young wife of an older pastor falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village, where stepping outside the bounds of the village's harsh moral code has disastrous results. Carl Dreyer's Day of Wrath remains an intense, unforgettable experience.
Ordet
Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955
In Carl Dreyer's Ordet, a farmer's family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love|one child believes he's Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist's daughter.
Gertrud
Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964
Carl Dreyer's last film is a meditation on tragedy, individual will, and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love|but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks.
Carl Th. Dreyer -- My Metier
Torben Skjodt Jensen, 1995
Torben Skjodt Jensen's elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema's greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer -- My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook.
DVD Studio: Criterion
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