
Communists
Drama
Overview
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
Top Cast
Aldo Fruttuosi
Aldo Fruttuosi
Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'
Aldo Fruttuosi
Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'
Rosalba Curatola
Rosalba Curatola
Siracusa
Rosalba Curatola
Siracusa
Franco Fortini
Franco Fortini
Himself
Franco Fortini
Himself
Andreas von Rauch
Andreas von Rauch
Empedokles
Andreas von Rauch
Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta
Vladimir Baratta
Pausanias
Vladimir Baratta
Pausanias


Danièle Huillet
Danièle Huillet
La femme
Danièle Huillet
La femme


Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub
Barbara Ulrich
Barbara Ulrich
Barbara Ulrich
Gilles Pandel
Gilles Pandel
Gilles Pandel
Arnaud Dommerc
Arnaud Dommerc
Arnaud Dommerc
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