Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

53m
Documentary
7.2

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.

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)

Crew

Sabine Carbon
Director, Writer
Safy Jana Reske
Editor
Felix Oehler
Director of Photography, Sound
Arno Schumann
Color Grading
Irene Höfer
Producer
Uwe Lösekann
Sound Mixer
Volker Arndt
Sound
Kurt Pierce
Sound
Bo Harwood
Original Music Composer
Andreas Schroth
Production Manager
Jan Bohleneder
Production Manager
Joan Cohen
Researcher
Margarita Escribano Röber
Graphic Designer

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