Saint Joan (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Otto Preminger

Escritores:

Graham Greene (writer)
George Bernard Shaw (play)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 mayo 1957 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Plot:

Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army...

Plot Keywords:

France | Joan Of Arc | Female Protagonist | Burned At The Stake | Saint

Comentarios de los usuarios:

yet another Joan

Reparto

Richard Widmark	...	The Dauphin, Charles VII
Richard Todd	...	Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Anton Walbrook	...	Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
John Gielgud	...	Earl of Warwick
Felix Aylmer	...	Inquisitor
Archie Duncan	...	Robert de Baudricourt
Harry Andrews	...	John de Stogumber
Margot Grahame	...	Duchesse de la Tremouille
Barry Jones	...	De Courcelles
Francis De Wolff	...	La Tremouille
Finlay Currie	...	Archbishop of Rheims
Victor Maddern	...	English Soldier
Bernard Miles	...	Master Executioner
David Oxley	...	'Bluebeard',- Gilles de Rais
Patrick Barr	...	Captain La Hire

Duración:

110 min

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

West Germany:12 (f) | UK:U | Finland:K-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Compañía:

Wheel Productions

Trivialidades:

Desmond Dickinson started as DoP but was replaced.

Citas:

The Dauphin, Charles VII: You will pretend to be me.
Gilles de Rais: [to a fellow cardplayer] Pretend to be that thing. Holy Michael!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Closer You Get (2000)

yet another Joan

This version by Otto Preminger is based on the play by Bernard Shaw, in which the ghost of Joan of Arc appears to Charles VII years after her execution. We then see in flashback how the young maid led the soldiers to victory at Orleans and made the Dauphin king, and how she was later betrayed by nobles, church, and soldiers alike.

Jean Seberg plays Joan as a very modern looking, very young girl who questions everything she sees and is at first tolerated and then shunned and feared. Richard Widmark is perhaps too comic as the Dauphin and comes across as miscast, while John Gielgud is reliable as Warwick, the English kingmaker. Other key roles are played by Anton Walbrook, Harry Andrews, Finlay Currie, and Richard Todd.

This version of the Joan of Arc tale has a greater feel of realism that the 40s version with Ingrid Bergman, but I rate the silent versions 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and 'Joan the Woman' higher. Although Seberg puts across a fine performance as Joan, she can't hold a candle to Falconetti in particular.