Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, his wife and co-director, have become leading figures in New German cinema. Their films are not for passive viewers seeking light entertainment; films such as Not Reconciled or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules (1965) are intellectually demanding, and yet are among the most haunting films of German cinema. Prior to teaming up with Huillet, the French born Straub worked as an assistant to French directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, and Robert Bresson. He met and teamed up with Huillet in 1954. To avoid the draft, he fled to Munich, Germany in 1958 where they got involved with radical theater groups. By the early sixties he and his wife had become a prominent directors. They made their debut with the short Machorka-Muff in 1963. In 1968, their long-time friend Fassbinder appeared in The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp. Straub and Huillet's most famous film is Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). By the late '60s, Straub had moved more into producing their films while Huillet continued to direct.
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L'arrotino
Director |
2010 | |||
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O somma luce
Director |
2010 | |||
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Le Streghe, les femmes entre elles
Director |
2009 | |||
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Itineraire de Jean Bricard
Director |
2008 | |||
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Le Genou d'Artemide
Director |
2007 | |||
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These Encounters of Theirs
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
2006 | |||
| 2003 | ||||
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Une visite au Louvre
Director |
2003 | |||
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Il Viandante
Director |
2001 | |||
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Operai, Contadini
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
2001 | |||
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Sicilia!
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1999 | |||
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Black Sin
Director |
1998 | |||
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Von Heute Auf Morgen
Director, Producer |
1997 | |||
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Lothringen!
Director |
1994 | |||
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Antigone
Director, Screenwriter |
1992 | |||
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Cezanne
Director |
1989 | |||
| 1989 | ||||
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La Mort d'Empedocle
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1987 | |||
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Proposta in quattro parti
Director |
1985 | |||
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Klassenverhältnisse
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1984 | |||
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En Rachachant
Director |
1982 | |||
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Trop Tot, Trop Tard
Director, Screenwriter |
1981 | |||
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Dalla Nube alla Resistenza
Director, Screenwriter |
1979 | |||
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Toute Revolution Est un Coup de Des
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1977 | |||
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Fortini/Cani
Director |
1976 | |||
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Moses and Aaron
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1975 | |||
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Geschichtsunterricht
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1972 | |||
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Othon
Actor, Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1969 | |||
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
| 1968 | ||||
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Nicht Versohnt oder "Es Hilft Nur Gewalt, Wo Gewalt Herrscht"
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1965 | |||
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Machorka-Muff
Director, Editor, Screenwriter |
1963 |