Screenplay: Friedrich Hölderlin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Friedrich Hölderlin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Death of Empedocles
1987 · Movie · 132 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Martina Baratta · Ute Cremer
Plot 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...
7.5
78 votes
7.5
78 votes
Black Sin
1990 · Movie · 42 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon
Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.
7.4
49 votes
7.4
49 votes
Antigone
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg
Plot 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...
7.4
171 votes
7.4
171 votes
Kommunisten
2014 · Documentary · 70 min. · France
Direction Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Franco Fortini · Jean-Marie Straub · Danièle Huillet
Plot Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is...
6.8
90 votes
6.8
90 votes