Jean-Marie Straub Movies

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.

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...

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...

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

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...

A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'

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...

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are...

Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the...

Inspired by a Cesar Pavese’s short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother. After killing someone, Meleagros...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with...

A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing...