The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Synopsis
Young Joan of Arc is a particularly pious child. Her childhood in the village of Domrémy was quiet until the English pillaged it. Her certainty that she is receiving divine messages is reinforced by frequent confessions and conversations with the clergy. She is thus determined to follow the voices spurring her to deliver France from English domination.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Gaumont
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Patrice Ledoux
- Adaptation : Andrew Birkin, Luc Besson
- Sound recordists : Vincent Tulli, François Groult, Bruno Tarrière, Ken Yasumoto
- Director of Photography : Thierry Arbogast
- Production Manager : Bernard Grenet
- Press Attachés (film) : Isabelle Sauvanon, Nathalie Lambert
- Editor : Sylvie Landra
- Production Designer : Hugues Tissandier
- Music Composer : Éric Serra
- Costume designers : Catherine Leterrier, Joséphine Gracia
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Historical, Biopic
- Production language : English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 27/10/1999
- Runtime : 2 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.742
- Visa issue date : 29/10/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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News & awards
News (2)
Selections (3)
Tokyo - International Film Festival
Japan, 1999
Special Screenings
Awards (2)
Delegations (2)
About
"At first, I didn't know much about Joan of Arc. I had a stereotyped, classic image of her that wasn't very interesting. Then I took a closer look at her story out of curiosity, and it really read like a thriller – there are so many gaps, uncertainties and also errors that you start playing Sherlock Holmes in order to figure things out. In the fifteenth century, aged 19, this young woman had such conviction, had such a career, had such an incredible destiny that I was truly impressed. It's amazing to realize that she was sentenced as a heretic and made a saint. And it's interesting to realize that she could only be one or the other, as though she had no right to be normal, as though those two extremes were linked by an invisible thread."
Luc Besson – Director, excerpt from the press folder
