The Death of Empedocles

(1987)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 11 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 132 мин

Country: Germany, France

Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

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

Plot

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