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