Joan of Arc

France, 1430: The young Joan of Arc, previously venerated as the saviour of France with divine inspiration and appointed as its leader, falls from grace. After military victories against the English, she lost with the royal army at the Battle of Compiègne. As a result, her loyalists fell away from her, intrigues were spun. Finally the young woman is captured. She is relentlessly put on trial before a church court and is sentenced to death as a heretic. Director Bruno Dumont (TWENTYNINE PALMS, CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, KINDKIND) follows after JEANNETTE - DIE KINDHEIT DER JEANNE D'ARC, his musical vitality cure for the Blessed Virgin of Orlèans, for this Passion story, the drama by Charles Péguy, published in 1897. The original text is sung by the French chanson legend Christophe, with amazing results. His reflection on unspoiled idealism and the power structure of the ancients, permeated by the means of epic theatre, opens up surprising perspectives on our political present.