
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
Giovanni Canfarelli Modica
Director of Photography
Jean-Paul Toraille
Director of Photography
Louis Hochet
Sound Recordist

Georges Vaglio
Sound Recordist
Alessandro Zanon
Sound Recordist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Theatre Play
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