DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Robert Frank’s second film is one of his most stylized and reflects Frank’s increasingly sophisticated cinematographic eye. Based on a short story by Isaac Babel, this parable finds Jesus refusing mercy to a young woman, instead giving her a guardian angel that she seduces.
Biografía del director
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (b. 1924, Zurich) is one of the most well-known and acclaimed photographers in the world. Yet he was also a filmmaker, a fact that comparatively few remember or are even aware of. From 1959 onwards, he put his work as a photographer on hold to focus on cinema, going on to complete more than 25 films over a 50-year career until his death in September 2019. Many of these are regarded as seminal works within the international independent and documentary scene.
Photo credit: Dodo Jin Ming
Finished
Sessions
December
Sunday 20
18:00 h
Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré.
Credits
Language
- Subtitles in spanish
Director
Robert Frank
Screenplay
Howard Shulman
Cinematography
Gert Berliner
Editing
Robert Frank, Ken Collins
Production
Walter Gutman