It depicts the life of Joan of Arc, and is the first female embodiment of the Nazi Führer figure in film.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig.

[2] 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] 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.