Communists

Communists

Actors:  Aldo Fruttuosi, Rosalba Curatola, Franco Fortini, Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Danièle Huillet Directors:  Jean-Marie Straub

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...