A prostitute is murdered by night in a Roman park. One by one the police interview the men who were in vicinity at the time-a petty thief, a hen-pecked pimp, a soldier on leave, a waiter and a pair of awkward lads keen to impress their girlfiends....
Carl Theodor Dreyer made this film during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and, similar to the way Arthur Miller demonised the Hayes Code in his play 'The Crucible', DAY OF WRATH uses the larger narrative of witch-hunts to point out the paranoid obs...