A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod des Empedokles’.
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
woman director
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
Cast
Howard Vernon
Manes
Danièle Huillet
La femme (uncredited)
Crew
Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Danièle Huillet
Director
Danièle Huillet
Screenplay
Jean-Marie Straub
Screenplay
Jean-Marie Straub
Editor
Danièle Huillet
Editor
William Lubtchansky
Director of Photography
Danièle Huillet
Producer
Jean-Marie Straub
Producer
Michael Esser
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
2 reviews
Alice
10.0★ · 04/20/25
Here Mt Etna smoulders with greenery in a way which reverses the Empedokles’ story so beautifully to a form of materialism which holds onto the rationalism Straub and Huillet’s vision of communism requires
Here Mt Etna smoulders with greenery in a way which reverses the Empedokles’ story so beautifully to a form of materialism which holds onto the rationalism Straub and Huillet’s vision of communism requires
Alice
10.0★ · 04/19/25
Here Mt Etna smoulders with greenery in a way which reverses the Empedokles’ story so beautifully to a form of materialism which holds onto the rationalism Straub and Huillet’s vision of communism requires
Here Mt Etna smoulders with greenery in a way which reverses the Empedokles’ story so beautifully to a form of materialism which holds onto the rationalism Straub and Huillet’s vision of communism requires
Alice
10.0★ · 12/08/22
‘Ever since I died to all the living The dead rise up to greet me’
‘Ever since I died to all the living The dead rise up to greet me’
Alice
10.0★ · 12/08/22
‘Ever since I died to all the livingThe dead rise up to greet me’
‘Ever since I died to all the livingThe dead rise up to greet me’
