Jean-Marie Straub Movies

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

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.

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

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 -...

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...

An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.

"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...

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

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

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

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

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...

A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA...

"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses,...

"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing...

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

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

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

Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...