The Trial of Joan of Arc

The Trial of Joan of Arc (1963)

Procès de Jeanne d'Arc

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.

Date of release
1963-02-13
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (157)
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Robert Bresson

Casting

Interesting facts

The Trial of Joan of Arc is a 1962 French historical drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson. Florence Delay stars as Joan of Arc, a French military leader, who is undergoing a trial on the charge of heresy in 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

As with all of Bresson's films after 1945, The Trial of Joan of Arc stars non-professional actors. In his version of the historical events, Bresson tried to "avoid 'theater' and 'masquerade', but to arrive at a non-historical truth by using historical words." He spoke unfavourably of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film, which covered the same subject, calling the actors' performances "horrible buffoonery".

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