Direction: Danièle Huillet

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Adriano Aprà · Anne Brumagne · Ennio Lauricella · Olimpia Carlisi

Synopsis This feature is based on the story Othon by Pierre Corneille. The expressionless actors deliver their lines dressed in ancient Roman costumes while the traffic of modern-day Rome roars by in the background.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Olimpia Carlisi · Guido Lombardi · Gino Felici · Lori Pelosini

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Martina Gionfriddo · Andrea Balducci · Gabriella Taddei · Vittorio Vigneri

Synopsis 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 intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Jean Bricard

Synopsis 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 artists.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Martina Baratta · Ute Cremer

Synopsis German romantic playwright Friedrich Hölderlin's unfinished play Empedokles tells the story of the titular Greek philosopher and poet's exile and death by casting himself into an active volcano. Straub and Huillet stage the action of the film in rural Sicily,...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Günter Reich · Louis Devos · Eva Csapo · Roger Lucas

Synopsis Moses und Aron is a 1973 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg. During its 1975 run at US festivals, it was also...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Synopsis Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Synopsis 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 alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg

Synopsis Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's body remain unburied, because he had betrayed the city. She...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Richard Salter · Christine Whittlesey · Annabelle Hahn · Claudia Barainsky

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Julie Koltaï

Synopsis Une Visite au Louvre is a companion film to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Cézanne from a decade earlier. The opening title of that later work indicates that it was inspired in 1990 by Dominique Païni, then film programmer at...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Angela Nugara · Giacinto Di Pascoli · Gianpaolo Cassarino · Enrico Achilli

Synopsis A group of World War II survivors from all over Italy come together to form a sort of “commune”. They want to forget the hardships of the conflict they have just lived through and set about sorting out the issue...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gustav Leonhardt · Christiane Lang · Paolo Carlini · Joachim Wolff

Synopsis First full-length feature film by the French filmmaking duo of Straub and Huillet. The film presents biography as the rewriting and juxtaposition of prior documents with a prominent importance of music, which was performed and recorded during the filming rather...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gianni Buscarino · Angela Nugara · Vittorio Vigneri · Carmelo Maddio

Synopsis 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 conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Christian Neinisch · Nazzareno Bianconi · Mario Adorf · Harun Farocki

Synopsis Based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, AMERIKA, the story follows the bizarre wanderings of 17-year-old Karl Rossmann, a serious-minded German bourgeois, sent to America by his parents to avoid a family scandal. Already the victim of the authority of...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Emmanuelle Straub · Dominique Dostat · André Varynski · Jean-Marie Straub

Synopsis In this 20-minute film, Jean Marie-Straub, who was born in Metz, Lorraine, unfolds the changing history of his homeland, a country torn by different wars and states. Victories are defeats and vice versa, and the land is saturated with iron,...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Angela Nugara · Vittorio Vigneri · Grazia Orsi · Romano Guelfi

Synopsis This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gottfried Bold · Johann Unterpertinger · Henri Ludwigg · Carl Vaillant

Synopsis Based on the unfinished novel 'The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar' by Bertolt Brecht. - Julius Caesar and various other people testify about the unfairness in the society of Rome in the process of change into capitalism.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Synopsis In 1989 Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet realized a film project that was commissioned by Virginie Herbin, director of the audiovisual department of the Musée d'Orsay. The film is based on Joachim Gasquet's recollected and imagined dialogs with Cézanne, Ce...