Day of Wrath

After a decade in the cinematic wilderness where he had to give up the trade completely to go back working at a newspaper (first as a film critic and then as a court reporter), Carl Theodor Dreyer proved that he could make something on time and within budget with his informational short film Mødrehjælpen. With that under his belt, Dreyer was able to secure financing for one of his scripts, an adaptation of Hans Wiers-Jenssen’s Anne Pedersdotter, an early 20th century Norwegian play. Quiet, a...