Destinées / Daughters of Destiny / Christian-Jaque / 1954

Destinées

1954 Comedy / Drama

Credits

Director: Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy, Marcello Pagliero
Script: Sergio Amidei, André-Paul Antoine, Aristophanes, Michel Audiard, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Jean Ferry, Henri Jeanson, Horace McCoy, Vladimir Pozner, Gian Luigi Rondi, André Tabet
Photo: Mario Craveri, Robert Lefebvre, Raffaele Masciocchi, Christian Matras
Music: Roman Vlad
Cast: Michèle Morgan (Jeanne d’Arc), Daniel Ivernel (Baretta), Andrée Clément (La mère), Michel Piccoli (Pasquerel), Robert Dalban (D’Aulon), Dora Doll (Une fille), Gil Delamare (Noiroufle), Jacques Fabbri (Pierre d’Arc), Gérard Buhr (Kennedy), Albert Michel (Un moine), Katherine Kath (La ribaude), Claudette Colbert (Elizabeth Whitefield), Eleonora Rossi Drago (Angela Ascari), Mirko Ellis (Anthony), Martine Carol (Lysistrata), Raf Vallone (Callias), Paolo Stoppa (Nicephore), Nyta Dover (Aphrodee), Nerio Bernardi (Cretidès), Mario Carotenuto (Erostrate), Giuseppe Porelli (Gorgias)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 102 min; B&W
Aka: Daughters of Destiny; Love, Soldiers and Women

Summary

Three stories about woman and war: In 411 BC, Athens is caught up in an endless war against Sparta. Tired of this interminable conflict, Lysistrata coerces all of the women to join her in a love strike. Disheartened by the loss of their conjugal rights, the Athenians decide to make peace with Sparta. April 1430. Joan of Arc is becoming doubtful about her mission and the soldiers no longer trust her. When Joan brings a dead child back to life, all the troops agree to follow her into battle again. But Joan knows that her days are numbered... The American Elisabeth Whitefield arrives in Italy to recover the body of her husband, Tony, who was killed in 1944 by the Germans. When she hears that her husband had a one night stand with Angela, a peasant girl, and that they had a child, Elisabeth decides to go back home without the remains of her husband so that he can lie near to the child he never knew...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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