Streaming: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia

Digital Restoration
November 20, 2020–August 31, 2021

featuring

Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Peter Kern, Gillian Scalici,

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“A rare and remarkable film. . . . Sumptuously stylized yet ardently observational” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). A central work in Ulrike Ottinger’s career, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia is an epic adventure tracing a fantastic encounter between two different worlds. Seven Western women travelers meet aboard the sumptuous, meticulously reconstructed Trans-Siberian Express, a rolling museum of European culture. On board are Lady Windermere (Delphine Seyrig in her last screen role), a prim tourist (Irm Hermann), a brash Broadway chanteuse, and an all-girl klezmer trio. Ambushed by a band of Mongol horsewomen, the company is abducted to the plains of Inner Mongolia, where they embark on a camel ride across the magnificent countryside.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ulrike Ottinger
Cinematographer
  • Ulrike Ottinger
Language
  • German
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital streaming
  • 165 mins
Source
  • Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art