Screenplay: Danièle Huillet

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Jean Bricard

Plot 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

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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andreas von Rauch · Vladimir Baratta · Howard Vernon

Plot Adaptation from the play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Julie Koltaï

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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...

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Irm Hermann · Kristin Peterson · Hanna Schygulla

Plot Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes playing their trade on the night-time...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Plot 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...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Günther Peter Straschek · Danièle Huillet · Peter Nestler · Jean-Marie Straub

Plot Depicts the reading of a long letter by Schoenberg to Kandinsky in which he explains that, as a Jew, he cannot accept Kandinsky’s invitation to teach at the Bauhaus.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Olivier Straub · Nadette Thinus · Bernard Thinus · Raymond Gérard

Plot The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.