Joan of Arc (1935 film)

Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
	Scene from a film
German	Das Mädchen Johanna
Directed by	Gustav Ucicky
Written by	Gerhard Menzel
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Angela Salloker; Gustaf Gründgens; Heinrich George;
Cinematography	Günther Krampf
Edited by	Eduard von Borsody
Music by	Peter Kreuder
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	26 April 1935;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Joan of Arc (German: 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.^[1]

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

Angela Salloker as Johanna
Gustaf Gründgens as King Charles VII
Heinrich George as Herzog von Burgund
René Deltgen as Maillezais
Erich Ponto as Lord Talbot
Willy Birgel as La Trémouille
Theodor Loos as Dunois
Aribert Wäscher as Alençon
Franz Nicklisch as Johann von Metz
Veit Harlan as Pierre
Paul Bildt as citizen
Bernhard Minetti as Amtmann
S. O. Schoening as Pater
Friedrich Ulmer as Captain
Fritz Genschow as Captain
Paul Wagner as Herald
Karl Dannemann as English soldier
Wera Liessem as girl in the crowd
Maria Koppenhöfer as woman in the crowd
Elsa Wagner as woman in the crowd
Josef Sieber as man at the coronation

Production

The film was directed by Gustav Ucicky and written by Gerhard Menzel.^[2]

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.^[2]

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1935, British writer Graham Greene^[3] 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."^[4]

References

^ Fox, Jo (2000). Filming Women in the Third Reich. Berg. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85973-391-2.
^ ^a ^b Waldman 2008, p. 85.
^ "The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene | Robert Royal". First Things. November 1999. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
^ Greene, Graham (25 October 1935). "Joan of Arc/Turn of the Tide/Top Hat/She". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-19-281286-5.)

Works cited

Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786438617.

External links

Joan of Arc at IMDb

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[1] Fox, Jo (2000). Filming Women in the Third Reich. Berg. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85973-391-2.

[FOOTNOTEWaldman200885-2] Waldman 2008, p. 85.

[3] "The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene | Robert Royal". First Things. November 1999. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[4] Greene, Graham (25 October 1935). "Joan of Arc/Turn of the Tide/Top Hat/She". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-19-281286-5.)

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