Day of Wrath 1943

The year is 1623. In a small Danish community, show trials of witches are being carried out on a massive scale. Women accused of witchcraft are burned at the stake; the trials are presided over by Reverend Absolon Pedersen. The pastor’s stern resolve faltered only once—when he spared and saved from the flames the mother of his second wife, the young Anna Pederstotter. Now, however, the pastor is being blackmailed by Martha Herlof, who has been sentenced to death—if he does not save her, she threatens to reveal Absolon’s secret. Meanwhile, the pastor’s wife seems oblivious to it all—she is in love with his son Martin, and the hour is drawing near when the quiet, unassuming Anna will rise up against her husband and her ruthless mother-in-law...