Die Windrose

Die Windrose
Die Windrose
Directed by	Alberto Cavalcanti; Sergey Gerasimov; Yannick Bellon; Gillo Pontecorvo; Alex Viany; Wu Kuo-yin
Written by	Jorge Amado; Alberto Cavalcanti; Vladimir Pozner; Franco Solinas; José Hipolito; Trigueirinho Neto
Produced by	Mário Audrá; Joris Ivens
Starring	Simone Signoret; Yves Montand
Cinematography	H.E. Fowle
Music by	Wolfgang Hohensee; Enrico Simonetti
Production; companies	Cinematográfica Maristela; DEFA
Release date	8 March 1957 (East Germany);
Running time	104 minutes
Country	German Democratic Republic
Language	German

Die Windrose (The Windrose) was a film made for the East German production company DEFA in 1957 and commissioned by the Women's International Democratic Federation.^[1] Alberto Cavalcanti was film director, with artistic input from Joris Ivens, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Helene Weigel, wife of German dramatist Bertold Brecht. All collaborated in the making of this film, a docu-drama about the struggle of female workers in Italy, Brazil, the Soviet Union, China and France, united as "pioneers of the way which leads to a better future".^[2]^[3]

Cast

Angela Brunner ... (voice)
Aracy Cardoso
Valdo César
Marlene França
Armida Gianassi ... Giovanna
Yves Montand
Vanja Orico
Carla Pozzi
Simone Signoret
Aurélio Teixeira
Miguel Torres
Helene Weigel
Yen Mei-yi
Zinaida Kirienko

References

^ Fuchs, Rachel G.; Epstein, Anne (November 18, 2016). Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective: Agency, Space, Borders. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 9781137497765 – via Google Books.
^ "Die WINDROSE (1957)". BFI. Archived from the original on November 25, 2017.
^ "DE JORIS IVENS_30.pdf Films in Production" (PDF). 11 DEFA und DIE WINDROSE. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2006.

External links

Die Windrose at IMDb

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[1] Fuchs, Rachel G.; Epstein, Anne (November 18, 2016). Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective: Agency, Space, Borders. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 9781137497765 – via Google Books.

[2] "Die WINDROSE (1957)". BFI. Archived from the original on November 25, 2017.

[3] "DE JORIS IVENS_30.pdf Films in Production" (PDF). 11 DEFA und DIE WINDROSE. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 11, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2006.

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