Joan of Arc at the Stake (Italian: Giovanna d'Arco al rogo) is a 1954 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring his wife Ingrid Bergman, which is based on a live performance in December 1953 at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples of the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Paul Claudel and Arthur Honegger.
[1] Bergman had previously portrayed Joan of Arc in a 1948 American film.
The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy.
In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and looks back upon her life.