The Voice of Thaïs

A documentary about the first woman to direct a film in Spain

Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, sets out to move the mortal remains of Elena Jordi (1882-1945), vaudeville star, actress and the first woman director of Spanish cinema, to her hometown, while trying to find a copy of Thaïs, the only film she directed.

Documentary History

Clara Mingueza

(Self - Actress & Narrator (voice))

Jordi Valmaña

(Self - Barcelona Cemeteries Former Director)

Jessica Cusano

(Self - Film Scholar)

Xavier Albertí

(Self - Art Director)

Josep Cunill

(Self - Writer)

Jesús Calderer

(Self - Mayor of Cercs)

Josep Noguera

(Self - Historian)

Climent Vilella

(Self - Relative)

Angelina Vilella

(Self - Relative)

Palmira González

(Self - UB Emeritus Professor)

Irene Melé-Ballesteros

(Self - PhD Candidate)

Barbara Zecchi

(Self - Film Professor)

Jaume «Kap» Capdevila

(Self - Cartoonist)

Marta Robert

(Self - Relative)

Hélène Legrais

(Self - Writer)

Esteve Riambau

(Self - Catalonia Film Archive Director)

Ramón Rubio

(Self - Film Curator)

Julien Avet

(Self - Film Curator)

Núria Cardona

(Self - Relative)

Toni Cardona

(Self - Relative)

Rosendo Pich

(Self - Tobacconist)

Francisco Franco

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Elena Jordi

(Self - Actress (voice) (archive footage))