The Death of Empedocles (film)
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Original title | The death of Empedocles |
Country of production | Germany , France |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1986 |
length | 132 minutes |
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Director |
Danièle Huillet , Jean-Marie Straub |
music | Johann Sebastian Bach |
camera | Renato Berta , Jean-Paul Toraille, Giovanni Canfarelli |
cut | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub |
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The Death of Empedocles (full title: The Death of Empedocles - or, if then the earth green shines anew yourselves ; French title:. La Mort d'Empedocle ) is a German-French film by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub from 1986, based on the unfinished tragedy of the same name by Friedrich Hölderlin in the first two-act version. The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1987 , among others . The two directors' preoccupation with Hölderlin's Empedocles fragments was continued in 1989 with the follow-up film Black Sin .
Web links
- The Death of Empedocles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information on straub-huillet.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Berlinale: 1987 film data sheet . In: berlinale.de . Retrieved July 5, 2020.