Film

Communists

2014 · 1h 10m · Drama

IMDb

6.0

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.

Aldo Fruttuosi

Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'

Rosalba Curatola

Siracusa

Franco Fortini

Himself

Andreas von Rauch

Empedokles

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Danièle Huillet

La femme

Jean-Marie Straub

Barbara Ulrich

Gilles Pandel

Arnaud Dommerc

• Jean-Marie StraubDirector · Screenplay
• André MalrauxNovel
• Elio VittoriniNovel
• Franco FortiniNovel
• Christophe ClavertDirector of Photography · Editor

Release date

August 15, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Drama

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