The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 1/8

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Playlist: www.youtube.com Includes Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, a choral and orchestral work that he was inspired to write by viewing the film. "A rustic woman, very sincere, who was also a woman who had suffered," is how director Carl Theodor Dreyer described Joan of Arc. In his silent, black and white masterpiece of 1927, "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc", Dreyer captured all three facets of her personality, drawing on a monumental performance from Renée Maria Falconetti as the French ...