Straub-Huillet Movie Trailers

Most Popular Straub-Huillet Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

History Lessons Trailer (1972)

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.

Sicily! Trailer (1999)

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.

Not Reconciled Trailer (1965)

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.

From the Clouds to the Resistance Trailer (1979)

07 November 1979

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology.

These Encounters of Theirs Trailer (2006)

07 September 2006

These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese's abstract, philosophical work.

Fortini/Cani Trailer (1977)

30 November 1977

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 alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab attitude of European culture.

Humiliated Trailer (2003)

24 March 2003

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).