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Dec 17, 2017 · Ulrike Ottinger – Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989) Asian warriors take a group of Western women hostage and bring them to their all-female village, leading to a culture clash. Women Make Movies wrote: Ulrike Ottinger’s epic adventure traces a fantastic encounter between two different worlds. Seven western women travelers meet aboard the ...
Ottinger has an omnivorous mind and fittingly opens with a serpentine 360-degree pan around the luxe train suite of Lady Windermere (shoutout to Oscar Wilde). Played with lithe sophistication by Delphine Seyrig, she advances, in her sly voiceover, the notion of an “alliance” between imagination and reality.
Overview. A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess. Ulrike Ottinger. Director, Writer.
Synopsis. In this multi-lingual and deliriously theatrical epic by Ulrike Ottinger, an unsung hero of the German New Wave and doyen of lesbian cinema, audiences are transported to the stunning steppes of Mongolia in the early 20th century. Here, the tropes of the heroine’s journey, “strangers on the train” and ethnographic travelogue are ...
Synopsis. A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess. Juana de Arco de Mongolia, 蒙古的圣女贞德. 165 mins More at IMDb TMDb.
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.
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia offers a playful reflection on the liberatory nature of cross-cultural encounter, embodied in the budding romance between the Mongol brigand and a young Frenchwoman, while also marking an important intersection between Ottinger’s early art films and her subsequent documentaries.
