Jean-Marie Straub

Since 1962, Jean-Marie STRAUB (1933, France), together with his wife, the late Danièle Huillet, has made more than 20 films based on the work of Bach, Böll, Brecht, Brückner, Cézanne, Corneille, J. de la Cruz, Duras, Engels, Fortini, Hölderlin, Kafka, Mallarmé, Pavese and Schönberg. The couple met in 1952, while preparing to take the entrance exam for La Fémis, although neither ended up attending the film school. They married in 1959. Most of their films have been screened in Rotterdam, and are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical politics. In 2006, the duo was awarded a Special Lion at Venice Film Festival in recognition of their work. Since the death of Huillet, Straub has continued making films on his own.

Filmography

Machorka-Muff (1962, short, co-dir), Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht/Not Reconciled (1964-65, short, co-dir), Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach/The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967, co-dir), Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter/The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp (1968, short, co-dir), Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour/Othon (1969, co-dir), Geschichtsunterricht/History Lessons (1972, co-dir), Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs ‘Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene’/Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene(1972, short, co-dir), Moses und Aaron (1974, co-dir), Fortini/Cani (1976, co-dir), Toute révolution est un coup de dés (1977, short, co-dir), Dalla nube alla resistenza (1978-79, co-dir), Trop tôt, trop tard (1980-81, co-dir), En rachâchant (1982, short, co-dir), Klassenverhältnisse/Class Relations (1983, co-dir), Proposta in quattro parti (1985, short, co-dir), Der Tod des Empedokles (1986, co-dir), Schwarze Sünde/Black Sin (1988, short, co-dir), Cézanne: Conversation avec Joachim Gasquet (1989, short, co-dir), Antigone (1991, co-dir), Lothringen!/Lorraine! (1991, short, co-dir), Von Heute auf Morgen/From Today Until Tomorrow (1996, co-dir), Sicilia!/Sicily! (1999, co-dir), Operai, contadini/Workers, Peasants (2001, co-dir), Il viandante (2001, short, co-dir), L’arrotino (2001, short, co-dir), Le retour du fils prodigue – Les humiliés (2003, co-dir), Incantati (2003, short, co-dir), Une visite au Louvre (2004, short, co-dir), Quei loro incontri (2006, co-dir), Europa 2005 27 octobre (2006, short, co-dir), Il ginocchio di Artemide/Artemis’ Knee (2007, short), Itinéraire de Jean Bricard (2007, short), Le streghe (2008, short), Corneille-Brecht (2009, short), O somna luce (2009, short), Joachim Gatti (2009, short), L’inconsolable (2010, short), Un héritier/An Heir (2010, short), Schakale und Araber (2011, short), La madre (2012, short), Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013, short), Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013, segment: La mort de Venise), Dialogue d’ombres/Dialogue of Shadows (2013, short), À propos de Venise (2013, short), Kommunisten/Communists (2014), La guerre d’Algérie! (2014, short), L’aquarium et la nation (2015, short), In omaggio all'arte italiana! (2015, short doc), Pour Renato (2015, short), Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub? (2016, short doc), Gens du lac! (2018, short), La France contre les robots (2020, short)

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