Jean-Marie Straub

Biography

Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933, Metz – 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Straub–Huillet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Othon

as Lucus

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

as Himself

The Last Days of Humanity

as Self (archive footage)

Communists

A Visit to the Louvre

Jackals and Arabs

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Lothringen!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Cinématon

as N°342