NITRATE FLAMES

International Competition for Feature and Medium-length

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Chamas de Nitrato
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Mirko Stopar

The parallelism between glory and tragedy uniting the Carl Theodore Dreyer’s classic, "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), and its charismatic protagonist, Renée Falconetti – a.k.a Maria Falconetti – is the leitmotif of this film. Based on archive footage, the director Mirko Stopar follows Falconetti’s path from the bright lights of Paris in the 1920s to the shadows of Buenos Aires in the 1940s, where she ended up in misery and oblivion, tracking a parallel with the fate of Dreyers’ masterwork, resurfaced in a Norwegian mental institution in the early 1980s.