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Othon (1971)
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Drama · 1h 28m
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.
Cast
Adriano Aprà
Olimpia Carlisi
Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Claude Biette
Eduardo de Gregorio
Sergio Rossi
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- Screenplay
- Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
- Director of Photography
- Ugo Piccone, Renato Berta
- Editor
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
- Producer
- Klaus Hellwig
Details
- Original title
- Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour
- Release date
- 1971-01-13
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Janus Film und Fernsehen