The Trial of Joan of Arc

7.219631h 2mReleased

Drama

History

Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1963-02-13

Runtime1h 2m

LanguagesEnglishFrançais

CountriesFrance

Keywords

religious fundamentalism

Videos

3 total

Trailer

Stream

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Criterion Channel

HBO Max

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Cast & Crew

Florence Delay

as Jeanne d'Arc

Jean-Claude Fourneau

as Bishop Cauchon

Roger Honorat

as Jean Beaupere

Marc Jacquier

as Jean Lemaitre

Jean Gillibert

as Jean de Châtillon

Michel Herubel

as Isambert de la Pierre

André Régnier

as D'Estivet

Arthur Le Bau

as Jean Massieu

Marcel Darbaud

as Nicolas de Houppeville

Philippe Dreux

as Martin Ladvenu

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Nov 10, 2022

7/10

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 chur…

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