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Shoot / The Passion of Joan of Arc

The interior sets were built in an empty factory building belonging to the Renault automobile company, in Billancourt, France.

Reception / The Passion of Joan of Arc

Critics unanimously praised the film for its artistic qualities, Falconetti for her performance in the title role, the DP for the excellent shots and Dreyer for his courage.

Bibliography / The Passion of Joan of Arc

Joseph Delteil: The passion of Joan of Arc / Wilhelmina Van Ness. In: Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, 1975, s. 292-298.

Dvd / Day of Wrath

Released by BFI, 2015
Blu-ray box set

Reception / Two People

Two People premiered in Sweden at Stockholm’s Röda Kvärn cinema on 23 March 1945.

Nordisk Films Kompagni

Dreyer was hired by Nordisk Films Kompagni in April 1913. In the years before World War I, the Danish studio mass-produced films and distributed them the world over. In his first five years at…

Reception / Water from the Land

The film never went into distribution and thus was never screened to the public.

Bibliography / War Correspondents

A/S Filmfabriken Danmark: SRH/Filmfabriken Danmarks historie og produktion / by Jan Nielsen. Multivers, 2003. 992 p. ill. See: P. 374-386: 26. Krigskorrespondenter.

Shoot / The Danish Village Church

As Preben Frank’s detailed accounts for the film show, the crew began work on 4 July 1946 and completed it in mid-October, though the lion’s share of the exteriors were in the can by 1 August.

Comments / Thorvaldsen

Dreyer expresses his intention with the film in a letter to Ib Koch-Olsen of 12 Nov.

Background / Shakespeare and Kronborg

When Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet had its world premiere in May 1948, a Danish journalist realised, to his chagrin, that a Danish film had never been made about Kronborg, Hamlet’s castle.

Shoot / The Storstrøm Bridge

The shoot started on or around 1 July 1948 and lasted an estimated 10-14 days.