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Nitrate Flames (2015)

Original title: Llamas de nitrato

2015-12-10 · 1h 3m · ES
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What ever happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc?

French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…

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Mirko StoparDirector, Writer

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Maria FalconettiMaria FalconettiHerself (archive footage)Irene MolnarIrene MolnarCarl Theodor DreyerCarl Theodor DreyerHimself (archive footage)Germán BaudinoGermán BaudinoPierre MarquillePierre MarquilleTony BozzoTony Bozzo

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What is Nitrate Flames about?

French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…

How long is Nitrate Flames?

Nitrate Flames has a runtime of 63 minutes.