Communists

Communists

2014•1h 10m•4.5/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.5/10(10)

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.

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Production

Andolfi, Belva GmbH, CNC

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Aldo Fruttuosi

Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'

Rosalba Curatola

Siracusa

Franco Fortini

Himself

Andreas von Rauch

Empedokles

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Danièle Huillet

Danièle Huillet

La femme

Jean-Marie Straub

Jean-Marie Straub

Barbara Ulrich

Gilles Pandel

Arnaud Dommerc

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