Fiction

DER TOD DES EMPEDOKLES

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
BRD, FRA 1986
132 min
V'08

Noted modernist filmmakers Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub are behind this evocative minimalist retelling of the tragic story of Empedocles, a Greek philosopher and statesman who lived in the fourth century BC. To prove himself a god and therefore, immortal, Empedocles hurled himself into the burning caldera of Mount Etna.

Credits
  • Andreas von Rauch - Empedokles
  • Vladimir Baratta - Pausanias
  • Martina Baratta - Panthea
  • Ute Cremer - Delia
  • Howard Vernon - Hermokrates
  • William Berger - Kritias
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet nach dem gleichnamigen Trauerspiel von Friedrich Hölderlin
  • Renato Berta
  • Jean-Paul Toraille
  • Giovanni Canfarelli
  • Louis Hochet
  • Georges Vaglio
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
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