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Communists

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.

Top Cast

  • Aldo Fruttuosi

    Aldo Fruttuosi

    Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'

  • Rosalba Curatola

    Rosalba Curatola

    Siracusa

  • Franco Fortini

    Franco Fortini

    Himself

  • Andreas von Rauch

    Andreas von Rauch

    Empedokles

  • Vladimir Baratta

    Vladimir Baratta

    Pausanias

  • Danièle Huillet

    Danièle Huillet

    La femme

  • Jean-Marie Straub

    Jean-Marie Straub

  • Barbara Ulrich

    Barbara Ulrich

  • Gilles Pandel

    Gilles Pandel

Overview

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.

Rating

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Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.

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6.7 2020