Jeanne d'Arc (1999)

Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 1999
Running Times: 148 mins (USA)     160 mins (France)
Format: colour     35mm     Technovision
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: DTS     Dolby EX 6.1     SDDS

(Full Credits)

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gaumont / Leeloo Productions
Executive Producers: Marc Jenny, Oldrich Mach
Producer: Patrice Ledoux
Co-Producer: Luc Besson

SCRIPT
Script: Luc Besson, Andrew Birkin

DIRECTION
Director: Luc Besson
2nd Unit Directors: Gérard Krawczyk, Jean-Paul Meurisse, Pascal Chaumeil

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Thierry Arbogast
2nd Unit Directors of Photography: Gérard Sterin, Jean-Pierre Sauvaire

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editing: Sylvie Landra

MUSIC
Music / Conductor: Eric Serra

SOUND
Sound Designer / Recordist: Vincent Tulli
2nd Unit Sound Recordist: Yunus Acar

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Magali Ceyrat, Marianne Collette
Make Up: Ivana Chlostova
Hair: Fabienne Bressan, Christine Leaustic, Ghislaine Tortereau, Nathalie Champion
Hair For Milla Jovovich: Fabio Campora
Costume Designer: Catherine Leterrier

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Fabrice Herbet, Kuno Schlegelmilch

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Duboi

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Alain Carsoux

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Hugues Tissandier
Art Director: Alain Paroutaud
Art Director (Czech Republic): Alain Paroutaud

LOCATIONS
Locations: Bruntal, Czech Republic; Razova, Czech Republic; Paris, France; Périgord, France; Sées, France
Location Managers: Arnaud Le Roch, Arnaud Putman, Bobane Veselinovic, Didier Hoarau, Fabrice Champion, Marc Guidetti, Stéphane Reus, Thierry Crépin, Vladimir Houbard, Yves Bogdan, Zdenek Fiala
Assistant Location Managers: Frank Lebreton, Patrick Le Coc

STUNTS
Stunts: Ipon
Stunt Co-Ordinator (Czech Republic): Jirí Kuba

CASTING
Casting: Lucinda Syson
Casting (France): Nathalie Cheron

CAST
Milla Jovovich (Joan of Arc)
Dustin Hoffman (the sonscience)
Faye Dunaway (Yolande D'Aragon)
John Malkovich (Charles VII)
Tchéky Karyo (Dunois)
Vincent Cassel (Gilles de Rais)
Pascal Greggory (The Duke of Alençon)
Richard Ridings (La Hire)
Desmond Harrington (Aulon)
Timothy West (Pierre Cauchon)
Rab Affleck (comrade)
Stéphane Algoud (look out)
Edwin Apps (Bishop)
David Bailie, David Barber, Timothy Bateson, Dominic Borrelli (English judges)
Christian Barbier, Christian Bergner, Patrice Cossoneau, Eric Tonetto (captains)
David Begg (nobleman - Rouen's castle)
Andrew Birkin (Talbot)
John Boswall (old priest)
Matthew Bowyer (bludgeoned French soldier)
Paul Brooke (Domremy's priest)
Bruce Byron (Joan's father)
Charles Cork (Vaucouleur's priest)
Tony D'Amario (Compiegne's mayor)
Serge Fournier, Daniel Daujon, Gérard Krawczyk (church's peers - coronation)
Tonio Descanvelle (Xaintrailles)
Philippe Du Janerand (Dijon)
Sylviane Duparc (Mary of Anjou's lady's companion)
Barbara Elbourn (the aunt)
Christian Erickson (La Trémoille)
Tara Flanagan (woman - Rouen's castle)
David Gant (The Duke of Bedford)
Sid Golder (cell guard)
Jessica Goldman (Duchess of Bedford's lady's companion)
Framboise Gommendy (Joan's mother)
Robert Goodman (Blackbeard)
Jean-Pierre Gos (Laxart)
Joanne Greenwood (Catherine)
Bernard Grenet (Senlis' Bishop)
Valerie Griffiths (the hag)
Timothee Grimbalt (conscience - child)
Richard Guille (English guard - Rouen's castle)
Thierry Guilmard, Didier Hoarau, Franck Ledreton (assessors)
Jerome Hankins (nobleman - Rouen's castle)
Jacques Herlin (Orleans' priest)
Len Hibberd (comrade)
Vera Jakob (woman at the cemetery)
Michael Jenn (The Duke of Burgundy)
Toby Jones, Philip Philmar, Brian Poyser, Ralph Riach, Peter Whitfield (English judges)
Richard Leaf (conscience - young man)
Joseph Malerba (Beaurevoir's guard)
Bruno Flender, Dominique Marcas, Joseph Rezwin, Frédéric Witta (Poitiers' inquisitors)
Eric Mariotto (young monk)
René Marquant (Rouen's priest)
Carl McCrystal (Glasdale)
Gina McKee (The Duchess of Bedford)
Phil McKee (Red Beard)
Simon Meacock (the teeth soldier)
John Merrick (Regnault de Chartres)
Joseph O'Conor (Poitiers' chief inquisitor)
Quentin Ogier (Louis)
Kevin O'Neill (scribe at Process)
Mélanie Page (young girl in bath)
Brian Pettifer (the executioner / torturer at Process)
Enee Piat (monk at coronation)
Irving Pompepui (Louis XI - 5 years old)
Olivier Rabourdin (Richemont)
Vincent Regan (Buck)
René Remblier (Dijon's assistant)
Mark Richards (corridor guard in Rouen)
Malcolm Rogers (Bishop)
Tara Römer (Gamaches)
Julie-Anne Roth (young girl in bath)
Olga Sékulic (Mary of Anjou)
Joseph Sheridan (canon)
Vincent Tulli (Orleans' physician)
Jane Valentine(Joan - 8 years old)
Jemima West (girl)
Tat Whalley (Raymond)

Against the backdrop of the Hundred Years War, 13 year old French girl Jeanne starts to have visions and finds a sword. Six years after the destruction of her town by English troops, she sets out on a crusade to remove the invading English from France, driven by her religious visions. But Jeanne, now aged just 19, is soon on trial in an English court, accused of witchcraft and heresy...

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina
Video Distributor: LK-TEL

Egypt
Theatrical Distributor: Renaissance Egypt Company

France
Theatrical Distributor: Gaumont Buena Vista International

Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia TriStar Film GmbH
DVD Distributor: Columbia / Tristar (29081)

UK
DVD Distributor: Columbia / Tristar (CDR 29081; includes - isolated musical score; HBO First Look - The Messenger: The Search for the Real Joan of Arc documentary)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
DVD Distributor: Columbia / Tristar (04607; includes - isolated musical score; HBO First Look - The Messenger: The Search for the Real Joan of Arc documentary)

Argentina
Rating: 13

Australia
Rating: MA

Chile
Rating: 14

Finland
Rating: K-16

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: 16

Hong Kong
Rating: IIB

New Zealand
Rating: R16

Norway
Rating: 15

Portugal
Rating: M/16

Singapore
Rating: PG

Spain
Rating: 13

Sweden
Rating: 15

Switzerland
Rating: 12

UK
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: R (for strong graphic battles, a rape and some language)

AWARDS

2000
César Awards, France
Meilleurs costumes (Catherine Leterrier) - winner
Meilleur son (François Groult, Bruno Tarriere, Vincent Tulli) - winner
Meilleur film - nominated
Meilleur réalisateur (Luc Besson) - nominated
Meilleure photographie (Thierry Arbogast) - nominated
Meilleur montage (Sylvie Landra) - nominated
Meilleure musique (Eric Serra) - nominated
Meilleurs décors (Hugues Tissandier) - nominated

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, USA
Sierra Award Best Costume Design (Catherine Leterrier) - nominated
Sierra Award Best Production Design (Hugues Tissandier) - nominated

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing: Foreign Feature (Marc-Antoine Beldent, Anne Delacour, François Groult, Jérôme Lévy, Frédérique Lebel, Pascal Maziere, Bridget O'Driscoll, Bruno Tarriere, Vincent Tulli, Ken Yasumoto) - winner

Razzie Awards, USA
Worst Actress (Milla Jovovich) - nominated

1998
June
15: France - filming begins

December
Day Unknown: France - filming ends

1999
October
18: USA - theatrical premiere
27: Belgium, France, Switzerland (French speaking region) - theatrical release
30: Japan - shown at the Tokyo International Film Festival

November
12: USA - theatrical release

December
17: Brazil- theatrical release; Taiwan - shown at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
26: Iceland, Norway - theatrical release

2000
January
1: Taiwan - theatrical release
13: Germany, Slovenia - theatrical release
14: Mexico - theatrical release
19: Egypt - theatrical release
20: Hong Kong, Hungary - theatrical release
21: Italy - theatrical release
24: Czech Republic - shown at the Febio Film Festival
28: Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Sweden - theatrical release

February
3: Australia, Israel, New Zealand - theatrical release
17: Singapore - theatrical release
18: Poland - theatrical release
24: Czech Republic - theatrical release
25: Estonia, Thailand - theatrical release

March
2: Argentina - theatrical release
10: UK - theatrical release

April
4: USA - DVD release (Columbia / Tristar (04607))
6: Malaysia - theatrical release
20: Netherlands - theatrical release

July
11: Germany - DVD release (Columbia / Tristar (29081))

November
13: UK - DVD release (Columbia / Tristar (CDR 29081))

2001
April
25: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Box Office)

November
10: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)

Giovanna d'Arco - Italian title
Jeanne d'Arc - Danish / Finnish title
Jeanne d'Arc, az Orleans-i szuz - Hungarian title
Joan of Arc - Australian / UK title
Joana d'Arc - Brazilian / Portugese title
Juana de Arco - Argentinian title
Luc Besson's Johanna von Orleans - German title
The Messenger - The Story of Joan of Arc - US title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Sight and Sound vol.10 no.1 (January 2000) p.6 (UK)
illustrated note (Burned at the box office)

joan of arc; visions; religion; war; burned at the stake; politics; rape

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009