Straub-Huillet's 'Death of Empedocles' Premieres
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have completed their fifteenth film, 'La mort d'Empédocle' (The Death of Empedocles), based on Friedrich Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy. The film presents the full text of Hölderlin's first version of the play, omitting only the final two scenes. The work continues the duo's rigorous approach to adapting literary and philosophical texts into cinema.
Key facts
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet directed the film.
- The film is titled 'La mort d'Empédocle' (The Death of Empedocles).
- It is based on a text by Friedrich Hölderlin from 1798.
- This is the fifteenth film by Straub and Huillet.
- The film includes the complete text of Hölderlin's first version of the tragedy.
- Only the last two scenes of the original text are omitted.
- The film was released in 1987.
Entities
Artists
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Danièle Huillet
- Friedrich Hölderlin
Sources
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