The Death of Empedocles

 

In The Death of Empedocles the Straubs bring to the screen a poet no one would dare imagine. Friedrich Hölderlin's Empedocles is adapted as a "communist dream" of life among equal people, peace and harmony with nature. Simultaneously, the film is a discovery of Sicily, its light and clearness, which has been haunting the Straubs for years. But the roar of the Etna merges with the distant thunder of the catastrophe of Chernobyl and the warning message of the film is addressed to all of us, "ch [...]

Duration

132 min

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