Danièle Huillet Movies

  • 1971
    Othon

    Othon

    Othon

    5.51971HD

    Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

    Othon
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1968
    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    6.21968HD

    The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

    Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
  • 1979
    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    From the Clouds to the Resistance

    5.21979HD

    'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

    From the Clouds to the Resistance
  • 1965
    Not Reconciled

    Not Reconciled

    Not Reconciled

    61965HD

    A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a...

    Not Reconciled
  • 2003
    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

    7.12003HD

    Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

    Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    5.41973HD

    This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 1999
    Sicily!

    Sicily!

    Sicily!

    6.51999HD

    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...

    Sicily!
  • 1992
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    5.91992HD

    A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...

    Antigone
  • 1983
    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    6.11983HD

    This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    5.11987HD

    Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

    The Death of Empedocles
  • 1982
    En rachâchant

    En rachâchant

    En rachâchant

    5.21982HD

    The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

    En rachâchant
  • 1968
    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp

    4.61968HD

    Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

    The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
  • 1995
    The Enclosed Valley

    The Enclosed Valley

    The Enclosed Valley

    7.21995HD

    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,...

    The Enclosed Valley
  • 1984
    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    6.81984HD

    A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

    Class Relations
  • 1963
    Machorka-Muff

    Machorka-Muff

    Machorka-Muff

    5.91963HD

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

    Machorka-Muff
  • 1972
    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    5.61972HD

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

    History Lessons
  • 1975
    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

    5.81975HD

    A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...

    Moses and Aaron
  • 1982
    Too Early / Too Late

    Too Early / Too Late

    Too Early / Too Late

    6.631982HD

    Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

    Too Early / Too Late
  • 2023
    The Last Days of Humanity

    The Last Days of Humanity

    The Last Days of Humanity

    7.42023HD

    The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

    The Last Days of Humanity