Jean-Marie Straub Movies
- 1982
Too Early / Too Late
Too Early / Too Late6.61982HD
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...
- 1989
Black Sin
Black Sin4.31989HD
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...
- 1999
Sicily!
Sicily!6.51999HD
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...
- 1968
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach6.1941968HD
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- 1984
Class Relations
Class Relations6.81984HD
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
- 2003
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Return of the Prodigal Son5.32003HD
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...
- 1978
Cinématon
Cinématon4.31978HD
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
- 1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp4.61968HD
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...
- 1975
Moses and Aaron
Moses and Aaron5.81975HD
A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...
- 1971
Othon
Othon5.51971HD
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...
- 1965
Not Reconciled
Not Reconciled61965HD
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...
- 2014
The Algerian War!
The Algerian War!4.72014HD
In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.
- 1987
The Death of Empedocles
The Death of Empedocles5.11987HD
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
- 2008
Artemide's Knee
Artemide's Knee6.2732008HD
Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare...
- 1979
From the Clouds to the Resistance
From the Clouds to the Resistance5.1761979HD
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...
- 1982
En rachâchant
En rachâchant5.21982HD
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.
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Venice 70: Future Reloaded5.32013HD
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...
- 2003
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?7.12003HD
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...
- 1992
Antigone
Antigone5.91992HD
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...
- 2013
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne6.12013HD
Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the...