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Joan of Arc (1935 film)

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{{Infobox film

|name = Joan of Arc

|image = Joan of Arc (1935 film).jpg

|caption = Scene from a film

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Das Mädchen Johanna}}

|director = Gustav Ucicky

|producer = Bruno Duday

|writer = Gerhard Menzel

|starring = {{ubl|Angela Salloker|Gustaf Gründgens|Heinrich George}}

|music = Peter Kreuder

|cinematography = Günther Krampf

|editing = Eduard von Borsody

|studio = UFA

|distributor = UFA

|released = {{Film date|1935|4|26|df=yes}}

|runtime = 87 minutes

|country = Germany

|language = German

}}

Joan of Arc ({{langx|de|Das Mädchen Johanna}}) is a 1935 German historical drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Angela Salloker, Gustaf Gründgens and Heinrich George. It depicts the life of Joan of Arc, and is the first female embodiment of the Nazi Führer figure in film. The press in Germany and abroad detected direct parallels between the presentation of France in 1429 and the situation in Germany in 1935.{{cite book|last=Fox|first=Jo|title=Filming Women in the Third Reich|publisher=Berg|year=2000|page=24|isbn=978-1-85973-391-2}}

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig.

Cast

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Production

The film was directed by Gustav Ucicky and written by Gerhard Menzel.{{sfn|Waldman|2008|p=85}}

Release

The New York Board of Censors removed the phrases "venereal disease", "bastard", "Holy Virgin Mary", "stallion", "by God", and "cursed" from the subtitles before it was shown in the United States.{{sfn|Waldman|2008|p=85}}

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1935, British writer Graham Greene{{cite web|title=The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene {{!}} Robert Royal|url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/1999/11/the-misguided-dream-of-graham-greene|access-date=5 September 2021|website=First Things|date=November 1999 }} criticized the film for historical inaccuracies (like Joan's rescue of Charles VII at Orléans rather than meeting at Chinon), as well as for what he called its "Nazi psychology" (including the "heavily underlined" political parallels between the June 30 purge and that of Trémoille, and between the Reichstag fire and the execution of Joan in Rouen). Greene described the overall effect to be dull and noisy, and described the direction as "terribly sincere, conveying a kind of blond and shaven admiration for poor lonely dictators who have been forced to eliminate their allies."{{cite journal|last=Greene|first=Graham|author-link=Graham Greene|date=25 October 1935|title=Joan of Arc/Turn of the Tide/Top Hat/She|journal=The Spectator}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last=Taylor|editor-first=John Russell|editor-link=John Russell Taylor|year=1980|title=The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/29|page=[https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/29 29]|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-281286-5|url-access= registration}})

References

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Works cited

  • {{cite book|last=Waldman |first=Harry |title=Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942 |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2008 |isbn=9780786438617}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0026761}}

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Category:1930s historical drama films

Category:German historical drama films

Category:Films of Nazi Germany

Category:Films directed by Gustav Ucicky

Category:Films about Joan of Arc

Category:UFA GmbH films

Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios

Category:German black-and-white films

Category:1935 drama films

Category:1930s German films

Category:1930s German-language films

Category:Films scored by Peter Kreuder

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