Christmas Screening Special

Free screening on the Sammlung Goetz website on 24.12. – 26.12.2020

With her film, Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia (1989), Ulrike Ottinger presents us with a stunning blend of an adventure film and ethnological documentary for our Christmas screening special. The multilingual film begins with a ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway as it travels through the snowy landscape, leading us into the vast terrain of the Mongolian tundra. Our fellow travelers include an elegant British dame and private scholar, a German senior lecturer, a young backpacker, an American music star, an overweight gourmet and a Russian general. Thanks to the fictional, satirically exaggerated characters, Ottinger humorously exposes novel perspectives on the unfamiliar, surprising the viewer with comic situations.

Ulrike Ottinger
Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
1989
158‘
Single-channel video (color, sound)

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