Movies

  • 2003
    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    5.32003HD

    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...

    The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • 1970
    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

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    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    5.11987HD

    Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

    The Death of Empedocles
  • 1977
    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    6.11977HD

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

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
  • 1995
    The Enclosed Valley

    The Enclosed Valley

    The Enclosed Valley

    7.21995HD

    My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...

    The Enclosed Valley
  • 2001
    6 Bagatelas

    6 Bagatelas

    6 Bagatelas

    6.22001HD

    Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...

    6 Bagatelas
  • 2003
    Humiliated

    Humiliated

    Humiliated

    02003HD

    Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

    Humiliated
  • 2010
    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    02010HD

    In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot...

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
  • 2008
    Artemide's Knee

    Artemide's Knee

    Artemide's Knee

    6.32008HD

    Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare...

    Artemide's Knee
  • 2009
    The Witches, Women Among Themselves

    The Witches, Women Among Themselves

    The Witches, Women Among Themselves

    5.72009HD

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

    The Witches, Women Among Themselves
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    5.41973HD

    This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 2003
    Incantati

    Incantati

    Incantati

    02003HD

    Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film...

    Incantati
  • 2001
    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

    62001HD

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

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
  • 1993
    The Persistence of Vision

    The Persistence of Vision

    The Persistence of Vision

    01993HD

    Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

    The Persistence of Vision
  • 1990
    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    6.41990HD

    A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

    Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
  • 1989
    Black Sin

    Black Sin

    Black Sin

    4.31989HD

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

    Black Sin
  • 1992
    Play Antigone

    Play Antigone

    Play Antigone

    01992HD

    Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

    Play Antigone
  • 2009
    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

    02009HD

    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 -...

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
  • 2006
    Europa 2005 – 27 octobre

    Europa 2005 – 27 octobre

    Europa 2005 – 27 octobre

    42006HD

    Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.

    Europa 2005 – 27 octobre
  • 2001
    Sicilia! Si gira

    Sicilia! Si gira

    Sicilia! Si gira

    02001HD

    Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.

    Sicilia! Si gira