In the autumn of 1430, Joan of Arc is taken prisoner by a powerful
nobleman of Northern France and sold to the English. As the young
woman languishes in her prison cell, awaiting her trial and probable
execution for heresy, several men pay her a visit, hoping to understand
just who she is - a messenger from God, a disciple of the Devil, or
merely a poor mad child...?
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.