Eventyret om dansk film 9: Lyspunkter under besættelsen - 1941-1944

Are You A Good Witch Or A Bad Witch? Which?

Astrid Holm, Johannes Meyer, and Mathilde Nielsen in Master of the House (1925)

Johannes Meyer in Die Gezeichneten (1922)

Maria Falconetti and Eugene Silvain in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Hildur Carlberg in The Parson's Widow (1920)

I see through my tears, but no one comes to wipe them away.

Preben Lerdorff Rye and Lisbeth Movin in Day of Wrath (1943)

Thorkild Roose and Anna Svierkier in Day of Wrath (1943)

Carl Theodor Dreyer in Day of Wrath (1943)

Thorkild Roose

Lisbeth Movin

Sigrid Neiiendam

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Poul Knudsen

Paul La Cour

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th century Denmark.

Vredens dag

In Majorem Gloriam Dei

Dreyer&apos;s pictures are absolutely mind-boggling .We seem to be in a Rembrandt&apos;s or Georges de la Tour&apos;s painting.He works with his camera the way a painter does with light to create different textures ,highlights and shadows.The scenes inside the minister&apos;s house where the world is still the prey of the good/evil concept are in direct contrast to those ,luminous and pastoral,where the lovers try to reinvent life:some kind of Garden of Eden,which the apple tree on the picture has promised.

Anne&apos;s passion was doomed from the start:her situation recalls that of Phaedra:both are pure even in sin,both are victims of an implacable heredity.Even before Martin&apos;s appearance ,the over-possessive mother leaves her no chance at all.

Remarkable sequences: the old woman&apos;s &quot;trial&quot;,her tortures,her screams (I&apos;m not afraid of Heaven or Hell ,I&apos;m afraid to die!&quot; Her death at the stake ,with Ann looking through the window pane ,and realizing it&apos;s an omen.The children singing terrifying canticles about God&apos;s wrath.

The minister beginning to wonder if his faith is strong enough and the wife&apos;s infamous revelation.

The nature which was a refuge, the only sunlight the lovers could get,becomes misty ,almost dark,as the young man has lost all his hopes and illusions.&quot;No,Ann says ,it all begins&quot; It&apos;s the seventeenth century and Ann is too ahead of her time.She and the old woman are the real human beings in the movie:the minister and his sinister mother are already dead when the film begins as much as the dying man he comforts in his last hour .Martin has got himself tangled up in remorse,superstitions (You&apos;ve got a magic power) and if life means rebellion and fight ,his surrender leaves him a living dead.

The old woman ,the &quot;witch&quot; ,is afraid to die,which is human:Jeanne D&apos;Arc herself,another &quot;witch&quot; which inspired CT Dreyer had her moments of doubt and fear,and she abjured to save her life .

&quot;Vredens Dag&quot; can still grab today&apos;s audience.This is a must.

Dreyer's pictures are absolutely mind-boggling .We seem to be in a Rembrandt's or Georges de la Tour's painting.He works with his camera the way a painter does with light to create different textures ,highlights and shadows.The scenes inside the minister's house where the world is still the prey of the good/evil concept are in direct contrast to those ,luminous and pastoral,where the lovers try to reinvent life:some kind of Garden of Eden,which the apple tree on the picture has promised.

Anne's passion was doomed from the start:her situation recalls that of Phaedra:both are pure even in sin,both are victims of an implacable heredity.Even before Martin's appearance ,the over-possessive mother leaves her no chance at all.

Remarkable sequences: the old woman's "trial",her tortures,her screams (I'm not afraid of Heaven or Hell ,I'm afraid to die!" Her death at the stake ,with Ann looking through the window pane ,and realizing it's an omen.The children singing terrifying canticles about God's wrath.

The minister beginning to wonder if his faith is strong enough and the wife's infamous revelation.

The nature which was a refuge, the only sunlight the lovers could get,becomes misty ,almost dark,as the young man has lost all his hopes and illusions."No,Ann says ,it all begins" It's the seventeenth century and Ann is too ahead of her time.She and the old woman are the real human beings in the movie:the minister and his sinister mother are already dead when the film begins as much as the dying man he comforts in his last hour .Martin has got himself tangled up in remorse,superstitions (You've got a magic power) and if life means rebellion and fight ,his surrender leaves him a living dead.

The old woman ,the "witch" ,is afraid to die,which is human:Jeanne D'Arc herself,another "witch" which inspired CT Dreyer had her moments of doubt and fear,and she abjured to save her life .

"Vredens Dag" can still grab today's audience.This is a must.

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