Saint Joan the Maid
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.
Cast
Simone Genevois
as Jeanne d'Arc
Fernand Mailly
as La Hire
Georges Paulais
as Nicolas Loyseleur
Jean Debucourt
as Charles VII
Philippe Hériat
as Gilles de Rays
Gaston Modot
as Lord Glasdall
Daniel Mendaille
as Lord Talbot
Jean-Louis Allibert
as
François Viguier
as
Genica Athanasiou
as
