Joan of Arc of Mongolia
1989 · Movie · 165 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Joan of Arc of Mongolia, in addition to having a fairly lugubrious, awkward title, is an extremely leisurely film. This is a film so unhurried that the plot strand that begat the film's title isn't even referenced until more than an HOUR into the film, not that it necessarily gets started then. The first of the film's three hours takes place entirely on a train, nominally the Transsibberian Railway, and we get an entire crossection of people, from regional expert Lady Windermere (Delphine Seyrig), to uptight German schoolmarm Mueller-Vohwinkel (Irm Hermann), from a young French girl open to pretty much anything (Ines Sastre) to singers varying from ostentatious Broadway queen Fanny Ziegfeld (Gillian Scalici) to rotund German cherub Mickey Katz (Peter Kern), as well as the cartoonish, old-school Kalinka sisters, whose primary instrument appears to be the gong
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Inés Sastre · Gillian Scalici · Irm Hermann · Peter Kern · Badema · Lydia Billiet · Christoph Eichhorn · Sevimbike Elibay · Jacinta · Else Nabu · Mark Reeder · Nugzar Sharia · Marek Szmielkin · Xu Re Huar · Amadeus Flössner
Soundtrack Wilhelm Dieter Siebert
Screenplay Ulrike Ottinger
Cinematography Ulrike Ottinger
Original title Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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