Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

53 mins | Documentary | June 5, 2019

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

53 mins | Documentary | June 5, 2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.
Producers MEDEA FILM - Irene Höfer
Original title Gena Rowlands — Unabhängig im Kino und im Leben
Directors Sabine Carbon
Writers Sabine Carbon

Cast

Eva Gosciejewicz

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Gena Rowlands

as Self

Greg Gorman

as Self

Jonas Mekas

as Self

Michael Ferris

as Self

Michael Ventura

as Self

Ray Carney

as Self

Robert Forrest

as Self

John Cassavetes

as Self (archive footage)