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Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933, Metz – 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works.
Most Popular Jean-Marie Straub Trailers
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07 April 2009
Another adaptation from Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò (following "From the Clouds to the Resistance", "These Encounters of Theirs" and "Artemis' Knee".
05 September 2001
Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies herself with laundry, and their dog Melchior frisks in and out of frame.
31 October 2014
In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.
05 August 2011
A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
08 June 1988
Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".
01 June 2001
Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.
27 May 2016
An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.
08 February 2012
In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barrès as a film they titled Lothringren!.
25 October 2013
Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with Danièle Huillet.
31 October 2009
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 - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era.
28 August 2013
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 the future of cinema.
01 November 2001
An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality.
10 September 1972
Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by ancient Roman society led to Caesar’s dictatorship.
08 January 2018
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
13 October 2006
Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.
01 November 1956
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat.
01 January 1967
A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'
08 January 2018
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 hardness at the same time as that of adults.
21 February 1984
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.
23 April 2003
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.
31 October 2015
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 MARSEILLAISE.
05 January 2011
In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
02 February 1992
Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.
01 January 2020
Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry!
Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle happily with the faces that also mingle with each other.
01 October 2015
"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: "Jean-Marie Straub, Cinématon number 342" and "Danièle Huillet, Cinematon number 343," filmed on May 27, 1984.
17 July 1984
Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
25 November 2009
Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration in Montreuil, he lost an eye, hit by a “flashball” fired from a policegun.
01 January 2005
A film by Laura Vitali about the last work of the couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Buti (Italy) in May 2005, namely the staging of the last five "Dialogues with Leucò" by Cesare Pavese.
08 January 2018
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.
01 January 1993
Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.
01 April 2015
Montage of one scene from Othon and set photos, made for a celebration of Renato Berta’s birthday at Stadtkino Basel on April 1, 2015.
01 January 2003
Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film Umiliati — fragment as mini-manifesto.
07 November 1979
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology.
13 January 1971
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 intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories.
16 November 1978
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 Huillet/Straub's movie »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«.
01 January 2011
Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing down the infamous gold miners.
02 September 1992
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.
30 September 2001
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity.
09 May 1975
A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin.
01 January 1983
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
10 October 1968
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 trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
17 February 1982
Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980.
28 December 1985
"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, is the prelude to this political film essay.
14 October 1987
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
08 January 2018
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
19 May 1999
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 conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
04 April 1990
A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet.
07 June 2008
Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature.
15 January 2003
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect.
04 July 1965
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge.
11 July 2001
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
17 April 2004
A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
10 August 1994
About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.
01 January 2002
"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 several stanzas from Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.
09 April 1973
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”.
03 February 1968
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
01 February 1970
Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.
05 August 2012
Inspired by a Cesar Pavese’s short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother.
07 December 1977
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own.
