To shoot the film, director Dreyer spent 7 million francs to build a huge medieval castle setting. The outer walls are strong and thick to support the lighting equipment and staff. The inner walls are mounted on rails and can be moved flexibly. Although the castle only appears to blur the background in the film, but Dreyer believes that only in a real castle background, the actor's performance in order to show the true situation sense
. In order to show the same sense of reality, Dreyer requires that all actors must not make-up, this practice is extremely rare in the silent era 's
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Because the silent film does not need to record the lines of the actors on the spot, the actor who plays the bishop Ge Xiong in the film made lewd things during the filming in order to prank in an attempt to make Maria Falconetti laugh. This approach was solemn accused the director, and has been immersed in the role of法奥康涅蒂also very angry, as her thoughts and director: Though when viewing audience can not hear sound but can see coming
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The original negative of the film was destroyed by fire, and the more complete version circulated in later generations was restored based on the negative found in a psychiatric hospital in Norway in 1981
. Because the film director refused to use musical accompaniment, the original soundtrack of the movie actually does not, then various versions of the soundtrack of the film is inspired by the creation of
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In an interview in 1967, Dreyer stated that Fao Conneti’s performance in the film was the most satisfying of his career as a director. 法奥康涅蒂when the film premiered also expressed the idea to continue cooperation and Dreyer's, but since then,法奥康涅蒂never acted in movies, the film became the only shadow of her career as an actor starred in the film
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