Like his 1928 masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath concerns a woman sentenced to burn at the stake. But here, that fiery fate is but a jumping-off point for a complex morality tale that casts an ambiguous eye toward witchcraft. Dreyer, who made the film during the Nazi occupation of his native Denmark, channels the intolerance and persecution around him into something genuinely eerie. His films are stereotyped as relentlessly dour, so unfamiliar viewers may be surprised by the intensity hiding behind Day of Wrath.