Black Sin

Black Sin

1989•42m•4.7/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.7/10(7)

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod des Empedokles’.

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Production

Produktion Straub-Huillet, NDR, WDR, Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor (RIAS), Südwestfunk

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Andreas von Rauch

Empédocle

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Howard Vernon

Howard Vernon

Manes

Danièle Huillet

Danièle Huillet

La femme (uncredited)

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