Jean-Marie Straub Movies

1982
Too Early / Too Late
Too Early / Too Late
6.61982HD
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...
2009
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
02009HD
Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht -...
2001
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
62001HD
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
2020
France Against the Robots
France Against the Robots
5.52020HD
"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such...
1984
Cinématon XXXV
Cinématon XXXV
01984HD
Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
2014
Concerning Venice
Concerning Venice
5.52014HD
The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, human and all too human. Are these the same ingredients,...
2010
Nos yeux se sont ouverts
Nos yeux se sont ouverts
02010HD
Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.
1999
Sicily!
Sicily!
6.81999HD
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...
2003
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Return of the Prodigal Son
62003HD
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...
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
6.41983HD
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.
1977
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
6.41977HD
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...
1993
The Persistence of Vision
The Persistence of Vision
01993HD
Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.
1967
Signalement van Jean Marie Straub
Signalement van Jean Marie Straub
01967HD
A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.
1978
Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
01978HD
This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of...
1982
En rachâchant
En rachâchant
5.41982HD
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.
2018
People of the Lake
People of the Lake
6.32018HD
More than a land, it is from the lake that this son comes. Raised by a father fisherman, he learned his noises and currents, maybe also its...
2018
Une Vie Risquée
Une Vie Risquée
02018HD
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
1992
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
101992HD
An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O....
1983
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
01983HD
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
2009
The Witches, Women Among Themselves
The Witches, Women Among Themselves
5.72009HD
Another adaptation from Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò (following "From the Clouds to the Resistance", "These Encounters of...