Communists
Genres
Overview
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 to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
70 min
Release Date
2014-08-15
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Vote Count
10
Vote Average
4.5
Aldo Fruttuosi
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Rosalba Curatola
Siracusa
Franco Fortini
Himself
Andreas von Rauch
Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta
Pausanias
Danièle Huillet
La femme
Jean-Marie Straub
Barbara Ulrich
Gilles Pandel
Arnaud Dommerc
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