Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia

Two divergent worlds collide in Ottinger’s most ambitious production, a thrilling epic and a trilingual tale about the abduction of a group of women by a tribe of female Mongolian warriors. The primary focus is cultural interaction and conflict, not only between Mongolian natives and European and American natives but between characters with different personalities. The film, shot entirely in inner Mongolia, plays on conventional fantasies and images about this remote land. 1989, 35mm, in German, Mongolian, and English with English subtitles, 165 minutes.