Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019•53m•7.2•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Sabine Carbon
Writer
Sabine Carbon
Languages
English, German
Studio
Medea Film Factory
Cast
Eva Gosciejewicz
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gena Rowlands
Self
Greg Gorman
Self
Jonas Mekas
Self
Meta Shaw Stevens
Self
Michael Ferris
Self
Michael Ventura
Self
Ray Carney
Self
Robert Forrest
Self
John Cassavetes
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Medea Film Factory
Producer
Irene Höfer
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