Danièle Huillet Movies

  • 2023
    The Last Days of Humanity

    The Last Days of Humanity

    The Last Days of Humanity

    7.6252023HD

    The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

    The Last Days of Humanity
  • 1982
    Too Early / Too Late

    Too Early / Too Late

    Too Early / Too Late

    6.5521982HD

    Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

    Too Early / Too Late
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1968
    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    6.2051968HD

    The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
  • 1984
    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    6.81984HD

    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.

    Class Relations
  • 1979
    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    5.21979HD

    'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

    From the Clouds to the Resistance
  • 1999
    Sicily!

    Sicily!

    Sicily!

    6.651999HD

    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!
  • 1971
    Othon

    Othon

    Othon

    5.41971HD

    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
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    5.31987HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1983
    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    6.0631983HD

    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.

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  • 1965
    Not Reconciled

    Not Reconciled

    Not Reconciled

    5.91965HD

    A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...

    Not Reconciled
  • 1992
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    5.91992HD

    A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...

    Antigone
  • 2008
    Itinerary of Jean Bricard

    Itinerary of Jean Bricard

    Itinerary of Jean Bricard

    5.82008HD

    The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...

    Itinerary of Jean Bricard
  • 1975
    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

    5.81975HD

    A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...

    Moses and Aaron
  • 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
  • 2014
    Communists

    Communists

    Communists

    4.52014HD

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

    Communists
  • 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
  • 2001
    Il viandante

    Il viandante

    Il viandante

    5.72001HD

    An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also...

    Il viandante
  • 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