Nitrate Flames

Nitrate Flames

63 mins | Documentary | Dec. 10, 2015

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…

Nitrate Flames

63 mins | Documentary | Dec. 10, 2015

Nitrate Flames
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…
Producers Habitación 1520 Producciones, Fenris Film, Ferryman Film
Original title Llamas de nitrato
Directors Mirko Stopar
Writers Mirko Stopar

Cast

Maria Falconetti

as Herself (archive footage)

Carl Theodor Dreyer

as Himself (archive footage)