Jean-Marie Straub Movies

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

"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,...

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...

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

Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

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...

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

The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about...

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.

Fragment of last reel from "History Lessons" presented in an installation as a special event for the Venice Biennale Arte.

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

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

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

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...

A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as Kristl...

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.