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Joan of Arc of Mongolia (German: Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia) is a 1989 West German drama film directed by Ulrike Ottinger. It was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2017, it screened for a week at the Museum of Modern Art. Cast. In alphabetical order. Badema; Lydia Billiet; Christoph Eichhorn as Officer's attache
In Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia, the carriers of Western culture riding on the Trans-Siberian are confronted first with their own culture, travelling as they are in their own museum, which is then unexpectedly held up by a foreign culture.
Mar 30, 1989 · Joan of Arc of Mongolia: Directed by Ulrike Ottinger. With Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Gillian Scalici, Peter Kern. A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ulrike Ottinger
- 1989-03-30
May 1, 2024 · Exuberant and energetic at times as traditional rituals are performed, but also deliberate in its pacing that contributes considerably to its rather lengthy runtime, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia is attentive in its depiction—and more remarkably, subversion—of orientalist tropes.
May 26, 2017 · Richard Brody reviews Ulrike Ottinger’s “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia,” which is playing at MOMA this week and features a train ride of legendary proportions.
Mar 8, 2018 · Ottinger’s 1989 film, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, which closes Toronto’s Goethe Institut’s short retrospective of her work, encapsulates this exploration. Delphine Seyrig, in her last role, stars as Lady Windermere, an ethnologist traveling across Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Dec 17, 2017 · Suddenly ambushed by a band of Mongol horsewomen, the company is abducted to the plains of Inner Mongolia and embark on a fantastic camel ride across the magnificent countryside. Breathtaking vistas, the lavish costumes of Princess Ulun Iga and her retinue, and the rituals of Mongol life are stunningly rendered by Ottinger’s ...
