Saint Joan the Maid
La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d'Arc
Release: 1929-04-29
·Runtime: 125m
·★ 6.3
Drama
History
This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.
Production Countries
Germany
France
Production Companies
Rapid Film
Pathé-Natan
Cast
Jean Debucourt
as Charles VII
Philippe Hériat
as Gilles de Rays
Simone Genevois
as Jeanne d'Arc
Daniel Mendaille
as Lord Talbot
Jean-Louis Allibert
Genica Athanasiou
Choura Milena
Mary Serta
Georges Paulais
as Nicolas Loyseleur
Gaston Modot
as Lord Glasdall
François Viguier
Fernand Mailly
as La Hire