Communists

(Kommunisten)

Jean-Marie Straub
France, Switzerland, 2014
featuring

Barbara Ulrich, Gilles Pandel, Jubarite Semaran, Arnaud Dommerc,

Straub’s digital meditation on struggle and resistance “is the closest Straub has come to an autobiographical film” (Artforum). Extracts from classic writers and theorists (Malraux, Fortini, Hölderlin) merge into clips from Straub and Huillet’s own work. In cinema, as in life and literature, the resistance continues.

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Jean-Marie Straub
Based On

  • based on Days of Wrath by André Malraux

Cinematographer
  • Renato Berta
  • William Lubtchansky
  • Robert Alazraki
  • Christophe Clavert
Language
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 70 mins
Preceded By

The Algerian War!
(La Guerre d’Algérie!)

Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland, France, 2014

Straub recounts his refusal to fight for France in the Algerian War.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 2 mins
Followed By

The Aquarium and the Nation
(L’Aquarium et la nation)

Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland, France, 2015

An André Malraux quote, a Jean Renoir film, a Haydn symphony, and an aquarium in a Parisian Chinese restaurant form the crux of Straub’s latest consideration.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 31 mins