Vredens Dag [Digitally Remastered Edition]

[Machine Translation] Jean-Luc Godard, Manoel de OLIVEIRA, Ingmar Bergman, and others, the Scandinavian Danish master Carl Th Dryer is revered by filmmakers around the world. An astonishing masterpiece that captures the sensuality of forbidden love and the shivers of a maniacally evil heart with meticulous spatial design and thorough realism! --The film is about a pastor in a medieval Norwegian village, Absalon, who has lost his wife before and now lives alone with his second wife, young Anne, and his mother. Absalon's only son, Martin, returns home. Anne and Martin are attracted to each other and fall in love. When Absalon dies suddenly, Anne is accused of being a witch. Against the backdrop of the Dark Ages, when witch hunts were widespread, the film depicts a woman who is accused of witchcraft and burned for causing the death of her husband, a pastor. Based on a play written in 1908 by Norwegian author Hans Wiers-Jensen. Jensen, who also studied psychic phenomena, wrote the play based on an actual incident that is said to have occurred in the 16th century. Commentary leaflet and postcard enclosed. Sound: Danish / mono

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ジャン=リュック・ゴダール、マノエル・ド・オリヴェイラ、イングマール・ベルイマン他、世界の映画人が敬愛する北欧デンマークの巨匠カール・Th・ドライヤー。緻密な空間設計と徹底したリアリズムで、禁じられた愛の官能と狂気的な悪しき心の戦慄を写し出す驚異の傑作! ――中世ノルウェーの村に住む牧師アブサロンは、以前に妻を亡くし、今は二番目の妻で若いアンヌと母親との三人暮らし。そこにアブサロンの一人息子マーティンが帰郷する。アンヌとマーティンは互いに惹かれ愛し合う関係になる。そしてアブサロンが急死すると、アンヌに魔女との告発が・・・。魔女狩りが蔓延する暗黒時代の中世を背景に、妖術を使って夫の牧師を死に至らしめたとして魔女にされ、火刑にされる女性を描く。原作はノルウェーの作家ハンス・ヴィアス=イェンセンの戯曲で1908年に書かれたもの。心霊現象の研究もしていたイェンセンが、16世紀に実際にあったと言われる事件に基づいて書いた。解説リーフレット、ポストカード封入。音声: デンマーク語/モノラル