The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Th. Dreyer.
“This is an extraordinary outstanding film that gathers all arts. Its images have an uncommon strength. Even though it is silent, we have to listen to the way it speaks.”
The story: The Passion of Joan of Arc, soundly evokes the passion and resonance of France’s heroine, the soul of her country, who was burned at the stake in 1431 for being a heretic and then in 1920 was made a saint… After being thought lost, the film survived the years in an Oslo mental asylum, and was restored to its original breathtaking beauty thereafter.
The film was never released on DVD in France yet. Only a US import exists -a magnificent DVD edition published by Criterion. To learn more about the film and the DVD, click here.