Communists 2014

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Drama

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. (Arnaud Dommerc)

Release Date 2014-08-15
Runtime 1h 10m
Directors Jean-Marie Straub, Christophe Clavert
Producer
Writers Jean-Marie Straub, André Malraux, Elio Vittorini, Franco Fortini, Friedrich Hölderlin