Danièle Huillet Movies

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his...

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...

Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film...

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this...

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They...

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...

"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of...

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...