Communists (2014)
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.
Director:
Jean-Marie Straub
Writer:
Jean-Marie Straub
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Aldo Fruttuosi as Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva' |
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Rosalba Curatola as Siracusa |
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Franco Fortini as Himself |
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Andreas von Rauch as Empedokles |
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Vladimir Baratta as Pausanias |
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Danièle Huillet as La femme |
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Jean-Marie Straub as |
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Barbara Ulrich as |
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Gilles Pandel as |
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Arnaud Dommerc as |
| Directing | Jean-Marie Straub | Director |
| Writing | Jean-Marie Straub | Screenplay |
| Writing | André Malraux | Novel |
| Writing | Elio Vittorini | Novel |
| Writing | Franco Fortini | Novel |
| Writing | Friedrich Hölderlin | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Christophe Clavert | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Christophe Clavert | Editor |
| Sound | Dimitry Haulet | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Hanns Eisler | Music |
