Jean-Marie Straub Movies

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at...

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are...

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They...

Inspired by a Cesar Pavese’s short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother. After killing someone, Meleagros...

An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.

The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the...

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

Another adaptation from Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò (following "From the Clouds to the Resistance", "These Encounters of...

A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

Fragment of last reel from "History Lessons" presented in an installation as a special event for the Venice Biennale Arte.

Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht -...