“What ever happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc?”
French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…
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Cast
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Maria Falconetti
Herself (archive footage)
Known for
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Himself (archive footage)
Also in
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Dr. Cook at Copenhagen
Benjamín Avila
Mirko Stopar
Irene Molnar
Tore Buvarp
Germán Baudino
Known for
Into the Abyss
What the Waters Left Behind
Peter Bøe
Pierre Marquille
Known for
The Wailing
Rojo
Maxi Dubois
Tony Bozzo
Lorena Muñoz
Mirko Stopar Director · Diego Poleri Cinematographer
First release March 20, 2014 · Produced in Argentina, Norway · Languages Danish, English, French, Spanish
Production
Fenris Film
Production
Ferryman Film
Production
Habitación 1520 Producciones
Production
Argentina · Norway
Produced in
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Original title
Llamas de nitrato
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Danish · English · French · Spanish
Release dates
Norway · March 20, 2014
Premiere · Eurodok Festival
Argentina · December 10, 2015
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
November 8, 2014 · Premiere · CPH:DOX
Uruguay
October 4, 2015 · Premiere · Piriápolis de Película
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