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The Passion of Joan of Arc
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
drama, biography, historycal
1928
France
Karl Theodore Dreyer
82 min.
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Sylven, Antonen Arto, Andre Berley, Maurice Schyutz, Jean d'ID, Louis Rava, Arman Lurville, Michelle Simon, Jacques Arnna
In this film, the court on Jeanne d`Ark, which actually lasted a whole year, is compressed on one single day. On this day, she is repeatedly interrogated by a spiritual court, she is constantly threatened with torture, she is deprived of communion, unless she confesses to witchcraft. Finally, when she encounters in order to be burned alive, she renounces, but after that she renounces her abdication, and she is publicly executed.