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Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Danish |
| Language Notes: | Danish language soundtrack with optional English subtitles. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2001]
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| Edition: | RSDL dual-layer ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
125. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) |
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| Summary: | Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take the oath swearing she did not kill her husband. She seems to become what she is accused of being and in a strange ending refuses to take the oath. |
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| Item Description: | "The classic collection. A joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema"--Container. Based on the play: Anne Pedersdotter / by Hans Wier-Jenssen. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1943. A foreign film (Denmark). Aspect ratio 1.33:1. Special features: New digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Henning Bendtsen -- Deleted footage of interviews from Torben Skjødt Jensen's documentary Carl Th. Dreyer, my métier, with actors Lisbeth Movin and Preben Lerdorff Rye -- Stills gallery. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet ([6] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) |
| Format: | DVD; Dolby digital mono. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Karl Andersson ; design, Erik Ases ; editor, Edith Schlüssel, Anne Marie Petersen ; music, Poul Schierbeck. |
| ISBN: | 0780024265 |