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Bookmark this pageNicht Versöhnt (1965)
Director: Jean-Marie Straub
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From Time Out Film Guide
Fifty years of German social and political history, from the anti-Communism of 1910 through the anti-semitism of the '30s to a political reprisal in 1960. Explored a-chronologically, in vignettes from the lives of three generations of a middle class family. Taken from Heinrich Böll's novel Billiards at Half Past Nine, but with all the mechanics of storytelling and the frosting of 'style' removed. Read the novel for the narrative; see Straub's movie for the steely precision of its ideas and images, enhanced by Brechtian acting and the absence of all redundancies. Difficult in ways that few films are, but necessarily difficult.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Marie Straub
Producer: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Cast: Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Ständner, Danièle Straub, Henning Hermssen, Ulrich von Thüna full cast
Duration: 53 mins
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