Joan of Arc (1948)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Joan of Arc
Original title Joan of Arc
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1948
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Victor Fleming
script Maxwell Anderson ,
Andrew Solt
production Walter Wanger
music Hugo Friedhofer
camera Winton C. Hoch ,
William V. Skall ,
Joseph A. Valentine
cut Frank Sullivan
occupation

Joan of Arc is an American monumental film from 1948 in Technicolor . His theme is the French national heroine Johanna von Orléans , played by Ingrid Bergman . The film is based on the play Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson , who also wrote the screenplay for the film with Andrew Solt .

This is the first of two films in which Ingrid Bergman played Johanna von Orléans; the second is Giovanna d'Arco al rogo from 1954.

action

In the Hundred Years War France suffers from the war against England. The simple peasant girl Johanna is commissioned by Saints Catherine and Margaret and the Archangel Michael to lead France's army against England. Her father, who had a dream that his daughter would go on with an army, exhorts his daughter to take care of the household.

Johanna goes to Vaucouleurs to see Robert de Baudricourt, the king's captain, and tells him that on a heavenly mission to save France she is to lead an army for the Dauphin; the dauphin would be crowned king. The captain initially reacts in disbelief, but believes her when her prophecy that the French are losing a battle against the English in Orléans is confirmed two weeks later by a message from a messenger and a priest's examination shows that Joan is not a witch .

Johanna meets Dauphin, who is plagued by financial worries, at a party. There they want to put her in and put Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Clermont, on the dauphin's throne; However, Johanna recognizes the real Dauphin in the assembled festival community. The Dauphin is completely convinced when Johanna knows things about him that only he can actually know. Johanna also passed the examination by a church commission.

There are more and more men for Johanna's army, which eventually goes into battle. Johanna initially encountered resistance from the generals, but managed to arouse their motivation by addressing the army.

The first thing to do is to attack the English fortress of Tourelles. Their captain, Sir William Glasdale, insults Johanna and does not take her appeals to surrender prematurely seriously. So it comes to a fight in the course of which Johanna is wounded. When her people give up, she pushes them back to fight. The French finally won the battle; Johanna feels guilty for the death of the English soldiers. The people of Orléans gave Johanna a lavish reception.

Johanna asks the Duke of Burgundy, who is fighting on the side of the English, for peace and invites him to the coronation of the Dauphin in Reims Cathedral . Pierre Cauchon , the Bishop of Beauvais, considers Johanna dangerous as soon as she marches with her army to Paris. Joan's enemies want to take advantage of the Dauphin's coronation as Charles VII by bribing him with money to make peace. During the coronation the crowd cheered Johanna and called for the march on Paris.

The newly crowned king, meanwhile, devotes himself to pleasure. When Johanna waited in vain for his help before the attack on Paris, he informed her that he had made peace with Burgundy out of war weariness ; but she understands that she was actually bribed by the English to do so. Charles VII dissolves the army, gives Johanna a title of nobility and grants her birthplace Domrémy-la-Pucelle tax exemption.

Johanna, like the generals, is depressed, but, in keeping with her promise to the saints, puts down her armor, but puts on simpler armor for the imminent capture by the Burgundians.

Under the direction of the Earl of Warwick, the deputy of the English King Henry VI. , Johanna is put on trial. During the first interrogation in court, Johanna also bypasses her judges' trickery questions and questions their legitimacy. So that the court is not embarrassed again by Johanna, the trial is being continued in camera at the behest of the Count of Warwick. When Judge Courneille leaves the trial because he has doubts about its impartiality, he is arrested on the orders of the bishop.

The Saints urge Joan to stand firm in her martyrdom. At another interrogation she is on the verge of desperation. Encouraged by the Cardinal of Winchester, Joan asks the Pope to appeal. The Bishop of Avranches reaffirms the illegality of the process and the legitimacy of Joan's calling.

When her finally on the last day of the trial before the people of Rouen , the excommunication and the stake is threatened revokes Johanna and will be sentenced to life imprisonment. However, she withdrew her revocation when, contrary to the promises of her judges, she was brought to a secular rather than a church prison. She regrets the weakness of repudiation before the saints who pardon her. When she refuses to exchange her men's clothes for women's clothes for this reason, she is sentenced to the stake.

Johanna dies at the stake with great sympathy from the population, most of whom are protesting against the verdict.

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1950 in the studios of the RKO dubbing department in Berlin . Reinhard W. Noack , who also directed the dubbing, wrote the dialogue book .

Reviews

“The lavishly equipped film adheres relatively closely to the historical facts, but calculates the audience impact all too consciously for deeper impressions of the psychological development of Joanna or the spiritual and spiritual atmosphere of the time to be conveyed. Ingrid Bergman played brilliantly in the title role. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Big role for Ingrid Bergman (...) Rating: 2½ stars - above average"

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" , 1990

Awards

In 1949 the film won two Academy Awards in the categories of Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design ( Barbara Karinska , Dorothy Jeakins ). The film was nominated for an Oscar in the categories of Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman), Best Supporting Actor (José Ferrer), Best Production Design (Richard Day, Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish), Best Editing and Best Score .

There was also an honorary Oscar for producer Walter Wanger.

literature

  • Maxwell Anderson , Andrew Solt: Joan of Arc. Text and Pictures From the Screen Play . William Sloane Associates, New York 1948, p. 170 (II)
  • Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, pp. 99-103, ISBN 3-442-10214-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arne Kaul: Johanna von Orleans (1948) in the synchronous database, accessed on May 23, 2009
  2. ↑ Joan of Arc. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 421