Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner
By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner’s desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker’s career in this documentary, using Arzner’s trove of photographs, as well as interviews with her leading lady Esther Ralston, to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.
Top Billed Cast
Eva Mattes
Narrator
Heidi Treutler
Narrator
Featured Crew
Konrad Wickler
Director of Photography
Katja Raganelli
Writer
Konrad Wickler
Producer
Katja Raganelli
Director
Richard Handerson
Sound
Carl H. Aussem
Sound
Alexander Rupp
Editor