The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1928 CE · Film · Nordic · Modernist

Drawn from the surviving transcripts of the 1431 trial, it compresses months of interrogation into one day of questions put to a nineteen-year-old girl by a room of churchmen. She is asked about her voices, her clothes, her signature, and whether she believes herself in a state of grace. Martyrdom as pure cinema.

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• parallels ↑ Antigone
  Sophocles · c. 441 BCE · Play

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Closest analogues

• Saint Joan
  George Bernard Shaw · 1923 CE · Play

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