The Death of Empedocles

Year: 1987

Runtime: 132 mins

Language: German

Directors: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Drama

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

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