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sankta_johanna_20110504112311_b.jpg - The Epilogue. It is 25 years later. The King Charles VII (Anders Ek), crowned in the Cathedral of Rheims, thanks to Joan, is now 51 and sitting in his bed in one of his royal châteaux. Joan and a multitude of people connected with her trial are coming back in this dreamlike scene where the past is intermingled with the present. Brother Martin Ladvenu (Lennart Lindberg) is telling the King that there was "shameless perjury and courtly corruption" at Joan's trial. Joan appears by the king's bed and says: "I am but a dream that thourt dreaming." Everybody who comes into the room, one by one, speaks the same way, apologizing for the wrong that was done 25 years earlier to Joan. A gentleman in a dress suit (Åke Askner) and tall hat comes in to announce that Joan of Arc has been canonized as a saint. The year is now suddenly 1920. Dunois, called the bastard of Orléans (Gunnar Strååt) comments: "Half an hour to burn you, dear Saint, and four centuries to find out the truth about you!"

The Epilogue. It is 25 years later. The King Charles VII (Anders Ek), crowned in the Cathedral of Rheims, thanks to Joan, is now 51 and sitting in his bed in one of his royal châteaux. Joan and a multitude of people connected with her trial are coming back in this dreamlike scene where the past is intermingled with the present. Brother Martin Ladvenu (Lennart Lindberg) is telling the King that there was "shameless perjury and courtly corruption" at Joan's trial. Joan appears by the king's bed and says: "I am but a dream that thourt dreaming." Everybody who comes into the room, one by one, speaks the same way, apologizing for the wrong that was done 25 years earlier to Joan. A gentleman in a dress suit (Åke Askner) and tall hat comes in to announce that Joan of Arc has been canonized as a saint. The year is now suddenly 1920. Dunois, called the bastard of Orléans (Gunnar Strååt) comments: "Half an hour to burn you, dear Saint, and four centuries to find out the truth about you!"

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