Jean-Marie Straub Movies

1965
Not Reconciled
Not Reconciled
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A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...
1983
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
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A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
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Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...
1992
Antigone
Antigone
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A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...
2014
The Algerian War!
The Algerian War!
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In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.
2012
La Madre
La Madre
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Inspired by a Cesar Pavese’s short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother. After killing someone, Meleagros...
1977
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
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A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...
1985
A Proposition in Four Parts
A Proposition in Four Parts
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"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses,...
1971
Othon
Othon
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Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...
2004
A Visit to the Louvre
A Visit to the Louvre
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A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
2003
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
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Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...
1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
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This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
2009
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
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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 -...
1978
Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
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This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of...
2013
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
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Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the...
1987
The Death of Empedocles
The Death of Empedocles
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Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
1989
Black Sin
Black Sin
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A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...
2003
Humiliated
Humiliated
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Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
2011
L’inconsolable
L’inconsolable
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With L’inconsolable, Jean-Marie Straub continues the mise en scène of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, initiated in...
1963
Machorka-Muff
Machorka-Muff
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A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.