The Passion of Joan of Arc (La
Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928), the earliest movie based on the story
of the French heroine, was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Maria Falconetti:
Ingrid Bergman played the leading role
in Joan of Arc made in 1948, directed by Victor Fleming:
A television movie was also made:
Then the most recent release, directed by
Luc Besson, starring his wife Milla Jovovich (a kind of arrangement
that left the door wide open for the critics and nay-sayers . .
.)