JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS
Filmfest 2018
USA 2018
Original version
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Susan Lacy
Section: Lights! Camera! Action!
Jane Fonda was, among other things, a sex bomb from outer space, a key actress of New Hollywood, an anti-Vietnam War activist, and the first (and perhaps only) queen of aerobics. Few stars have gone through as many changes of image as she has. To do so often means getting out from under the shadow of a man: her father, Henry, for example. This is a totally unclassical five-act film. Director Susan Lacy has used lots of archived material and numerous interviews to reconstruct a life reflected through the decades.
With: Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Robert Redford, Lily Tomlin, Ted Turner
Credits
Director of Photography: Samuel Painter
Film Editor: Benjamin Gray, Kris Liem
Composer: Paul Cantelon
Sound: David Mitlyng
Producer: Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin, Emma Pildes
Production Company: Pentimento Productions
World Sales: HBO Documentary Films
Director: Susan Lacy
biography

In 1986, director and producer Susan Lacy created AMERICAN MASTERS for PBS television. This series, which portrays American artists from various fields, received more than two dozen prime-time Emmys. In 2017, Susan Lacy made a lengthy documentary about the life and work of Steven Spielberg.