The Death of Empedocles

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

Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Cast: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta, Ute Cremer, Howard Vernon, William Berger, Federico Hecker, Peter Boom

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.