The Death of Empedocles

2h 12m

Drama

5.3

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Cast

Andreas von Rauch

Empedokles

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Martina Baratta

Panthea

Ute Cremer

Della

Howard Vernon

Hermokrates

William Berger

Kritias

Federico Hecker

Die drei bürger

Peter Boom

Die drei bürger

Giorgio Baratta

Die drei bürger

Georg Brintrup

Die drei Sklaven

Achille Brugnini

Die drei Sklaven

Manfred Esser

Die drei Sklaven

Hans Peter Kammerer

Der Bauer

Crew

Jean-Marie Straub

Director, Screenplay, Editor

Danièle Huillet

Director, Screenplay, Editor

Renato Berta

Director of Photography

Jean-Paul Toraille

Director of Photography

Giovanni Canfarelli Modica

Director of Photography

Louis Hochet

Sound Recordist

Georges Vaglio

Sound Recordist

Alessandro Zanon

Sound Recordist

Friedrich Hölderlin

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