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Known For

Maria Falconetti is known for:

  • Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
    The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
  • La comtesse de Somerive
  • Nitrate Flames
    A look upon the tragic fate of Falconetti, the star of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and the way that performance mirrored her life and overshadowed everything else she did.

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 – December 12, 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Renée Jeanne Falconetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.