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The Death of Empedocles

1987· 2h 12m

Drama

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

5.5/ 10

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Overview

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

Cast

Andreas von Rauch

Empedokles

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Martina Baratta

Panthea

Ute Cremer

Della

Howard Vernon

Howard Vernon

Hermokrates

William Berger

William Berger

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