Collection of films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. In 'Day of Wrath' 1943, set in 17th-century Denmark, elderly pastor Absalon Pedersson Thorkild Roose is cursed at the stake by a peasant woman Anna Svierkier whom he has tortured into a confession of witchcraft. Soon after, Absalon's young wife Anne Lisbeth Movin begins an affair with his son Martin Preben Ledorff Rye. When Anne tells Absalon of her love for Martin, the old man suffers a fatal heart attack and she too finds herself being faced with accusations of witchcraft. In 'Ordet' 1955, head of the family Peter Borgen Ejner Federspiel forbids his younger son Anders Cay Kristiansen to marry his girlfriend Anne Gerda Nielsen because her family belongs to a different Protestant sect. The ecclesiastical debate strikes to the community's heart, with only Inger Birgitte Federspiel, the wife of Peter's eldest son Mikkel Emil Hass Christensen, bridging the religious divide. In 'Gertrud' 1964, Nina Pens Rode stars as the eponymous politi