Rod Steiger delivered one of his signature portrayals of slow-burning emotional torment as a Holocaust survivor in this groundbreaking classic from 1965.
As the major film studios have increasingly lost interest in their back catalogues, it has opened the doors for these independent houses to do some truly outstanding, important work, giving us an eclectic array of films...
This early silent film of Dreyer's presents as a stage-bound, conventional family drama, but it functions as an artistic breakthrough that set the stage for bolder masterpieces yet to come.