La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc [videorecording] = The passion of Joan of Arc / Janus Films ; Gaumont ; [présénte par] la Société générale de films ; un film de Carl Th. Dreyer ; scénario, Carl Theodor Dreyer avec la collaboration de Joseph Delteil.
Format:
[videorecording] =
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
1999
Description:
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 libretto (25 p. ; 16 cm.)
Renée Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Gilbert Dalleu, Jean d'Yd, Lois Ravet. "The Cinémathèque française presents a film restored in 1985." Originally produced as a motion picture in 1928. Optional soundtrack features Richard Einhorn's oratorio "Voices of light" inspired by the silent motion picture and performed by Anonymous 4, Susan Narucki, the Netherlands Radio Choir and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Special features: an extensive production design archive; Audio essay / Casper Tybjerg, a Dreyer scholar from the University of Copenhagen; a history of Passion's many versions, with clips; audio interview with Falconetti's daughter; an essay by Richard Einhorn on Joan of Arc and Voices of Light; Voices of Light libretto booklet, including the medieval texts used in Einhorn's composition.
Summary:
Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution.
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 62 The Classic collection
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