- Film Review
- Reviewed By Robin Karney
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5 out of 5
Put to the stake for witchcraft, a woman (Anna Svierkier) places a curse on the pastor (Thorkild Roose) who condemned her. Disaster and death are then visited upon the pastor and his family, beginning with his discovery that his wife (Lisbeth Movin) is having an affair with a younger man (Preben Lerdoff Rye). Made by Denmark's great genius of the cinema, Carl Th Dreyer (his first film since Vampyr a decade earlier), this is a coldly uncompromising vision of human frailty, stupidity, bigotry and cruelty, made all the more horrifying by the startling beauty of its images. Not an easy experience, but a rewarding one.
Plot Summary
Period drama directed by Carl Th Dreyer. In the 17th Century, a young woman wishes her much older husband dead. When he does die soon after, she is accused of being a witch.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Absalon Pedersson
- Thorkild Roose
- Anne, his wife
- Lisbeth Movin
- Merete, his mother
- Sigrid Neiiendam
- Martin, his son
- Preben Lerdorff Rye
- Herlofs Marte
- Anne Svierkier
- Laurentius
- Olaf Ussing
- Bishop
- Albert Hoeberg
Crew
- Director
- Carl Th Dreyer
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