

The Passion of Joan of Arc
An Immortal Screen Classic that will live Forever!
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $18.1K
- Language
- No Language
- suffering
- court case
- judge
- sentence
- woman martyr
- heresy
- trial
- religion
- torture chamber
- black and white
- saint
- martyrdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNRNew York City, New York28 Mar 1929
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical6 Jan 1930
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival27 Jan 1952
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1521 Apr 1928
FranceFR
- Theatrical1225 Oct 1928
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1225 Oct 1928
GreeceGR
- TheatricalRe-Issue10 Jul 2025
ItalyIT
- Theatrical18 Jan 1929
- TV25 Sept 1966
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+25 Oct 1929
South KoreaKR
- Physical1220 Nov 2003
SpainES
- Theatrical16ICAA 2469612 Apr 1996
SwedenSE
- Theatrical159 May 1932
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The Passion of Joan of Arc was released on 21 April 1928.
Audience reviews
3- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/8/2022
Maria Falconetti is superb as the eponymous tortured soul betrayed and tried for heresy in 15th century France. The history is well known, and Carl Theodor Dreyer sticks fairly faithfully to the more established, traditional, chronology which leaves us, the audience, to focus much more on the wonderfully emotive, gritty and poignant efforts from the cast and the wonderfully creative talent behind the camera. The comb…
- C10/10
cyberflixgold
1/27/2025
There are a few different versions of this movie with different audio tracks. Dreyer himself criticized a bastardized version in the 1950s that changed the vignettes and audio to better fit for audiences of the time. I saw this movie long ago from a poor reproduction with what I assume was the original score and it was pretty good. Years later showed it to someone else and we saw the remastered Voices of Light ver…
- T10/10
TkA
7/31/2026
**This is a perfect film** I love Jeanne d'Arc, the patron saint of soldiers.\ \ Before I saw this film, I had always considered 'The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc' to be the epitome of Jeanne d'Arc's story on film.\ \ When I found out about this film a few years later, I only watched it because of my love for Jeanne d'Arc. But I didn't think a silent black and white film from the 1920s would be able to …
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