The Trial of Joan of Arc

7.2(148)19631h 2m

DramaHistory

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Director

Robert Bresson

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Cast

Florence Delay

Jeanne d'Arc

Jean-Claude Fourneau

Bishop Cauchon

Roger Honorat

Jean Beaupere

Marc Jacquier

Jean Lemaitre

Jean Gillibert

Jean de Châtillon

Michel Herubel

Isambert de la Pierre

André Régnier

D'Estivet

Arthur Le Bau

Jean Massieu

Marcel Darbaud

Nicolas de Houppeville

Philippe Dreux

Martin Ladvenu

Paul-Robert Mimet

Guillaume Erard

Gérard Zingg

Jean-Lohier

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

There is something especially evocative about the way in which this quite short film has been put together by Robert Bresson and Léonce-Henri Burel. In just over an hour, it offers us a startlingly bleak interpretation of the last weeks of Joan of Arc's life, imprisoned, manipulated and subjected to immense amounts of intellectual cruelty by a church and a state that was determined that she should...