Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
- suffering
- court case
- judge
- sentence
- woman martyr
- heresy
- trial
- religion
- torture chamber
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Maria Falconetti
Jeanne d'Arc
Eugène Silvain
Bishop Pierre Cauchon
André Berley
Jean d'Estivet
Maurice Schutz
Nicolas Loyseleur
- Antonin Artaud — Jean Massieu
- Michel Simon — Jean Lemaître
- Jean d'Yd — Guillaume Evrard
- Louis Ravet — Jean Beaupère
- Armand Lurville — Judge
- Jacques Arnna — Judge
- Alexandre Mihalesco — Judge
- Léon Larive — Judge
- Jean Aymé — Judge (uncredited)
- Gilbert Dacheux — Judge (uncredited)
- Gilbert Dalleu — Jean Lemaître (uncredited)
- Directed
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Written
- Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Production
- Studio
- Société générale des films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
