The Trial of Joan of Arc

Directed by Robert Bresson
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 5 min
French release : 11/10/1962
Production year : 1962

Director

Robert
Bresson

Actors

Florence
Delay

(Jeanne d'Arc)

Jean-Claude
Fourneau

(Evêque Cauchon)

Roger
Honorat

(Jean Beaupère)

Marc
Jacquier

(Jean Lemaître)

Jean
Gillibert

(Jean de Châtillon)

Michel
Herubel

(Frère Isambert de la Pierre)

André
Régnier

(D'Estivet)

Arthur
Le Bau

(Jean Massieu)

Marcel
Darbaud

(Nicolas de Houppeville)

Philippe
Dreux

(Frère Martin Ladvenu)

Paul-Robert
Mimet

(Guillaume Erard)

Gérard
Zingg

(Jean-Lothier)

Synopsis

About

The Trial of Joan of Arc (French: Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1962 historical film by the French director Robert Bresson. Joan of Arc is played by Florence Delay.

As usual in Bresson's mature films, The Trial of Joan of Arc stars non-professional performers and is filmed in an extremely spare, restrained style. Bresson's screenplay is drawn from the transcriptions of Joan's trial and rehabilitation.

Bresson's Joan of Arc is often compared with The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Bresson compared that film unfavorably with his own, expressing his dislike of the actors' "grotesque buffooneries" in Dreyer's film.

The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.

Source : Wikipedia

Production and distribution

Film export/Foreign Sales : Agnes Delahaie Productions, mk2

Full credits

Assistant Directors : Serge Roullet, Alain Ferrari, Hugo Santiago
Producer : Agnès Delahaie
Director of Photography : Léonce-Henri Burel
Sound Recordist : Antoine Archimbaud
Sound Assistant : Georges Girard
Assistant Operator : Robert Caristan
Editor : Germaine Artus
Continuity supervisor : Françoise Collin
Art Director : Pierre Guffroy
Music Composer : Francis Seyrig
Production Designer : Pierre Charbonnier
Costume Designer : Lucilla Mussini

Technical details

Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama, Historical
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 1962
French release : 11/10/1962
Runtime : 1 h 5 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 25049
Visa issue date : 04/10/1962
Approval : Unknown
Production formats : 35mm
Color type : Black & White
Sound format : Mono