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Synopsis
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously br
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It is impossible to look at those faces and not think immediately of the Danish silent film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' made by Carl Theodore Dreyer in 1928. Eisenstein had almost certainly seen it before he began filming
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