1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft.
When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter.
Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated by her mother's story, begins to get aquainted with witchery believing to master it. An ode to life and freedom against zealotry, intolerance and spiritual blindness.
Country: Danimarca
Year: 1943
Running time: 93'
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Mogens Skot-Hansen, Poul Knudsen
Cinematography: Karl Andersson
Editing: Edith Schlüssel, Anne Marie Petersen
Music: Poul Schierbeck
With: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Anna Svierkier, Kirsten Andreasen, Sigurd Berg
Produced by: Palladium Film
