Jean-Marie Straub Movies

  • 2003
    Humiliated

    Humiliated

    Humiliated

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

    Humiliated
  • 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«

    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...

    Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
  • 2014
    Concerning Venice

    Concerning Venice

    Concerning Venice

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    The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, human and all too human. Are these the same ingredients,...

    Concerning Venice
  • 2006
    These Encounters of Theirs

    These Encounters of Theirs

    These Encounters of Theirs

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    These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare...

    These Encounters of Theirs
  • 1984
    Cinématon XXXV

    Cinématon XXXV

    Cinématon XXXV

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

    Cinématon XXXV
  • 2013
    Dialogue of Shadows

    Dialogue of Shadows

    Dialogue of Shadows

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    Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with...

    Dialogue of Shadows
  • 2001
    6 Bagatelas

    6 Bagatelas

    6 Bagatelas

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    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
  • 2012
    L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti

    L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti

    L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti

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    On a sunny afternoon, an old man sits in the shade of the trees in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, at the edge of the grave of the great actress...

    L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti
  • 1999
    Sicily!

    Sicily!

    Sicily!

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    A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized...

    Sicily!
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    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.

    The Death of Empedocles
  • 2020
    S et H

    S et H

    S et H

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    Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry! Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle happily with the faces that also mingle with...

    S et H
  • 2011
    L’inconsolable

    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...

    L’inconsolable
  • 2008
    Artemide’s Knee

    Artemide’s Knee

    Artemide’s Knee

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    Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen...

    Artemide’s Knee
  • 2018
    Une Vie Risquée

    Une Vie Risquée

    Une Vie Risquée

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    Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.

    Une Vie Risquée
  • 1977
    Fortini/Cani

    Fortini/Cani

    Fortini/Cani

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    The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his...

    Fortini/Cani
  • 2001
    Sicilia! Si gira

    Sicilia! Si gira

    Sicilia! Si gira

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

    Sicilia! Si gira
  • 1963
    Machorka-Muff

    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.

    Machorka-Muff
  • 2002
    Dolando

    Dolando

    Dolando

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    "At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing...

    Dolando
  • 1994
    Lothringen!

    Lothringen!

    Lothringen!

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

    Lothringen!
  • 1971
    Othon

    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...

    Othon