Joan of Arc
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Short description
Set in fifteenth-century France during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc follows a young peasant girl from the village of Domrémy who believes she has been given a divine mission. Convinced that heavenly voices call her to save her country, she seeks out the Dauphin, the future Charles VII, and persuades him to place troops under her command. Her faith draws followers to her cause, and she leads the French forces against the English, most notably at the siege of Orléans, on the road to having the Dauphin crowned king. The film is based on Maxwell Anderson's play, with Anderson and Andrew Solt credited on the screenplay.
Ingrid Bergman stars as Joan, heading a cast of 68 credited performers that includes Francis L. Sullivan as Pierre Cauchon, J. Carrol Naish as the Count of Luxembourg, Ward Bond as La Hire and Gene Lockhart as Georges de la Trémouille. Victor Fleming directed, and the film stands as the tenth entry in the chronological list of his features, arriving after A Guy Named Joe and following such earlier works as Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Walter Wanger produced for RKO Radio Pictures, Sierra Pictures and Walter Wanger Productions, at a budget of 5 million dollars.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.4 from around 4,200 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.2 from 89 votes. Running 145 minutes, it was released in December 1948.
What's left behind the scenes
- Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) dreamed of starring in this film and tried for many years to get it finally made.
- Creating chainmail for Joan of Arc presented a problem, as making an exact copy would have been very expensive, the chainmail itself would have been too heavy for the actor, and chainmail was needed for all the actors in the main roles and extras. Costume designer Barbara Karinska (1886-1983) found a solution. She simply knitted tunics onto which ordinary metal washers were then sewn, and the washers were painted silver.
- Maxwell Anderson's (1888-1959) play "Joan of Lorraine" (1946), which served as the literary source for the screenplay, is a so-called play-within-a-play, and its plot not only retells the story of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), but also demonstrates the effect this story has on the theatrical troupe, especially on the actress playing the main role. Ingrid Bergman wanted to preserve the structure of the play in the film, but the studio management rejected the idea, stating that the audience would not like it. Therefore, Anderson and Andrew Solt (1916-1990) were tasked with changing the narrative structure – focusing only on scenes with Joan of Arc and removing everything else. The film's title was also changed to the more recognizable "Joan of Arc."
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