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