Filmography

1962

Machorka-Muff

18 minutes

Photography: Wendelin Sachtler (35 mm)

Sound: Janosz Rozner, Jean-Marie Straub

Actors: Erich Kuby (Erich von Machorka-Muff), Renate Lang (Inniga von Zaster-Pehnunz)

Based on the story "Bonn Diary" by Heinrich Böll

Filmed in ten days on location in Bonn and Munich, September 1962

Published screenplays: Cinema e Film [Rome] (Summer 1968); Reinhold Rauh, ed., Machorka-Muff: Jean-Marie Straubs und Danièle Huillets Verfilmung einer Satire von Heinrich Böll (Münster: MAKS, 1988)

1964–1965

Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht (Not Reconciled)

55 minutes

Photography: Wendelin Sachtler (35 mm)

Sound: Lutz Grübnau, Willi Hanspach

Actors: Henning Harmssen (Robert Fähmel, age 40), Ulrich Hopmann (Robert Fähmel, age 18), Ernst Kutzinski (Schrella, age 15), Ulrich von Thüna (Schrella, age about 35), Martha Ständner (Johanna Fähmel, age 70), Danièle Huillet (Johanna Fähmel as a young woman)

Based on the novel Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Böll

Filmed in six weeks on location in Cologne and Munich, August–September 1964, and two weeks in spring 1965

Published screenplays: Filmkritik 2 (1966):65–70 (excerpts); Richard Roud, Jean-Marie Straub , trans. Misha Donat (London: Secker and Warburg, 1971), 124–171; Cinema e Film [Rome] (Winter 1966–1967):79–97; Ça cinéma (October 1973):30–57

1967

Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach)

93 minutes

Photography: Ugo Piccone, Saverio Diamanti, Giovanni Canfarelli (35 mm)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Lucien Moreau

Actors: Gustav Leonhardt (Johann Sebastian Bach), Christiane Lang-Drewanz (Anna Magdalena Bach); with the Concentus Musicus (Vienna), the concert group of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel), and the Hanover Boys' Choir

Filmed in eight weeks on location in Preetz, Stade, Hamburg, Eutin, Lüneburg, Lübeck, Nürnberg, Freiberg/Sachsen, East Berlin, Regensburg, and Haseldorf, August–October 1967

Published screenplays: Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach , ed. Helmut Färber (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Filmkritik, 1969); Cahiers du cinéma (April/May 1968):200–201; Cinema e Film [Rome] (Summer 1968):56–90

1968

Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (The Bridegroom, the Comedienne, and the Pimp)

23 minutes

Photography: Klaus Schilling, Hubs Hagen (35 mm)

Sound: Peter Lutz, Klaus Eckelt

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, James Powell, Lilith Ungerer, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Peer Raben

Filmed in five days on location in Munich, April–May 1968

Published screenplays: Filmkritik 10 (1968):680–687; Cinema e Film [Rome] (Winter/Spring 1969)

1969

Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour (Othon)

88 minutes

Photography: Ugo Piccone, Renato Berta (16 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Lucien Moreau

Actors: Olimpia Carlisi (Camille), Adriano Aprà (Othon), Anne Brumagne (Plautine), Ennio Lauricella (Galba), Marilù Parolini (Flavie), Jean-Claude Biette (Martian), Jean-Marie Straub (Lacus), Edoardo de Gregorio (Atticus)

Based on the play Othon by Pierre Corneille

Filmed in four weeks on location at the Palatine Hill and in the gardens of the Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome, August—September 1969

Published screenplays: Othon , drama by Pierre Corneille (1664), trans. Herbert Linder and Straub/Huillet (New York: Herbert Linder, 1974 [privately issued]); Bianco e Nero (January/April 1970); Cinema e Film (Summer/Fall 1970):203-239

1972

Geschichtsunterricht (History Lessons)

85 minutes

Photography: Renato Berta, Emilio Bestetti (16 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Jeti Grigioni

Actors: Gottfried Bold (The Banker), Johann Unterpertinger (The Peasant), Henri Ludwigg (The Lawyer), Carl Vaillant (The Writer), Benedikt Zulauf (The Young Man)

Based on the novel fragment Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Caesar (The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar) by Bertolt Brecht

Filmed on location in Rome, Frascati, Terenten (Alto Adige), and on the island of Elba, June—July 1972

Published screenplays: Screen 17, no. 1 (Spring 1976):54–76; "Leçcons d'historire," trans. Straub/Huillet, Cahiers du cinéma 241 (September/October 1972):46–66; Filmcritica (February/March 1974)

1972

Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs "Begleitmusik zu einer

Lichtspielscene" (Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's

"Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene")

Photography: Renato Berta (16 mm, Eastmancolor); Horst Bever (black & white Gevaert)

Sound: Jeti Grigioni, Harald Lill

Actors: Günter Peter Straschek, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Peter Nestler

Filmed in Rome and Baden-Baden, July—September 1972

Published screenplays: Filmkritik 2 (1973):80–87; Screen 17, no. 1 (Spring 1976):77–83; Filmcritica (January/February 1973):34–40; Ça cinéma 1, no. 2 (October 1973):58–65

1974–1975

Moses und Aron (Moses and Aaron)

105 minutes

Photography: Ugo Piccone, Saverio Diamanti, Gianni Canfarelli, Renato Berta (35 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Ernst Neuspiel, Georges Vaglio, Jeti Grigioni

Actors: Günter Reich (Moses), Louis Devos (Aaron), Eva Csapò (Young Woman), Richard Salhard Salter (Man); Choir and Symphony

Orchestra of the ORF (Vienna), under the musical direction of Michael Gielen

Based on the opera Moses and Aaron by Arnold Schoenberg

Filmed on location in the amphitheater of Alba Fucense and at Lago Matese, August—September 1974

Published screenplays: Moïse et Aron , trans. Straub/Huillet (Toulouse: Editions Ombres, 1990); Filmkritik 5/6 203–252; corrections follow in Filmkritik 10 (1975); Cahiers du cinéma 260/261 (October/November 1975):69–84 (Act I) and 262/263 (January 1976):79–94 (Acts II and III) [trans. Straub/Huillet]; Filmcritica (March 1975):92–99 (excerpts); English translation of the libretto, not supervised by Straub/Huillet, accompanies Philips recording no. 6700 084

1976

Fortini/Cani

83 minutes

Photography: Renato Berta, Emilio Bestetti (16 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Jeti Grigioni

Actors: Franco Fortini, Franco Lattes, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà

Based on the book I cani del Sinai/The Dogs of Sinai by Franco Fortini

Published screenplays: Screen 19, no. 2 (Summer 1978):9–40; Filmkritik 1 (1977):14–35; Les Chiens du Sinai—Fortini/Cani (Paris: Dossiers Cahiers du Cinéma, March 1979)

1977

Toute révolution est un coup de dés (Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice)

11 minutes

Photography: William Lubtchansky (35 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet

Actors: Danièle Huillet, Marilù Parolini, Dominique Villain, Andrea Spingler, Helmut Färber, Michel Delahaye, Manfred Blank, Georges Goldfayn, Aksar Khaled

Based on the poem A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance by Stéphane Mallarmé

Filmed on location in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, May 1977

1978

Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance)

105 minutes

Photography: Saverio Diamanti, Gianni Canfarelli (35 mm, color)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Georges Vaglio

Actors: Olimpia Carlisi (Nephele, the Cloud), Gino Felici (Hippolocus), Ennio Lauricella (Tiresias), Mauro Monni (The Bastard), Carmelo Lacorte (Nuto)

Based on the books Dialogues with Leucò and The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese

Published screenplay: Filmkritik 11 (1980)

1980–1981

Zu früh, Zu spät/Trop tôt, Trop tard/Troppo presto, Troppo tardi/Too Early, Too Late

105 minutes

Photography: William Lubtchansky, Robert Alazraki (16 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet

Voices: First part, letter sent by Friedrich Engels to Karl Kautsky: Danièle Huillet; second part, excerpt from Luttes sociales en Egypte by Mahmud Hussein: Géard Samaan (German and Italian versions), Bhagat el Nadi (French and English versions)

Filmed on locations in France (including Tréogan, Motreff, Marbeuf, Harville, and outside Lyon and Rennes) in June 1980 and in Egypt in May 1981

1982

En Râchaâchant

7 1/2 minmutes

Photography: Henri Alekan (35 mm, black & white)

Sound: Louis Hochet

Actors: Olivier Straub, Raymond Gérard, Nadette Thinus, Bernard Thinus

Based on the story "Ah Ernesto" by Marguerite Duras

Filmed on location in Paris in August 1982

1983

Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations)

126 minutes

Photography: William Lubtchansky, Caroline Champetier (35 mm, black & white)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Georges Vaglio, Manfred Blank

Actors: Christian Heinisch, Reinald Schnell, Anna Schnell, Klaus Traube, Hermann Hartmann, Jean-François Quinque, Alfred Edel, Libgart Schwarz, Mario Adorf, Gérard Samaan, Manfred Blank, Andi Engel, Harun Farocki

Based on the novel fragment Amerika by Franz Kafka

Filmed on location in Hamburg, Bremen, New York, and Missouri in 1983

Published screenplay: Klassenverhältnisse. Von Danièle Huillet und Jean-Marie Straub nach dem Amerika-Roman "Der Verschollene" von Franz Kafka , ed. Wolfram Schütte (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1984)

1986

Der Tod des Empedokles oder: wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem euch erglänzt (The Death of Empedocles)

132 minutes

Photography: Renato Berta, Jean-Paul Toraille, Giovanni Canfarelli (35 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Georges Vaglio, Alessandro Zanon

Actors: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta, Ute Cremer, Howard Vernon, William Berger, Frederico Hecker, Peter Boom, Giorgio Baratta

Based on The Death of Empedocles by Friedrich Hölderlin (first version, 1798)

Filmed on location in Ragusa and on Mount Etna in 1986

1988

Schwarze Sünde (Black Sin)

40 minutes

Photography: William Lubtchansky, Christophe Pollock, Gianni Canfarelli (35 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet, Sandro Zanon

Actors: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Howard Vernon, Danièle Huillet

Based on The Death of Empedocles by Friedrich Hölderlin (third version, 1798)

Filmed on location on Mount Etna in 1988

Published screenplay: Empédocle sur Etna (Toulouse: Editions Ombres, 1990)

1989

Cézanne

51 minutes

Photography: Henri Alekan (35 mm, color)

Sound: Louis Hochet

Actors: Voices of Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Based on the dialogues of Cézanne and Joachim Gasquet; with excerpts from the films The Death of Empedocles and Madame Bovary (Jean Renoir, 1933)

Filmed on location in Paris, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, London, Edinburgh, Basel, and Ascona in 1988

1991–1992

Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeiter von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (Antigone)

100 minutes

Photography: William Lubtchansky (35 mm, Eastmancolor)

Sound: Louis Hochet

Actors: Astrid Ofner, Werner Rehm, Ursula Ofner, Hans Diel, Kurt Radeke, Michael Maassen, Rainer Philippi, Libgart Schwarz

Based on Sophocles' Antigone (translated into German by Friedrich Hölderlin, 1800–1803) as adapted by Bertolt Brecht (1947–1951)

Filmed on location in Segesta (Sicily) in 1991–1992

Published screenplay: Antigone. Sophocle. Hölderlin. Brecht. Huillet. Straub. (Toulouse: Editions Ombres, 1992)

1994

Lothringen! (Lorraine! )

21 minutes

Photography: Christophe Pollock (35 mm, color)

Sound: Louis Hochet

With extracts from the novel Colette Baudochè by Maurice Barres