The Death of Empedocles (1987)

Name: The Death of Empedocles
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-10-14
Duration: 132 min
Cast: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta, Ute Cremer, Howard Vernon

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

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Released 1987-10-14 · 132 min · Drama

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Cast

Andreas von Rauch as Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta as Pausanias
Martina Baratta as Panthea
Ute Cremer as Della
Howard Vernon as Hermokrates
William Berger as Kritias
Federico Hecker as Die drei bürger
Peter Boom as Die drei bürger
Giorgio Baratta as Die drei bürger
Georg Brintrup as Die drei Sklaven
Achille Brugnini as Die drei Sklaven
Manfred Esser as Die drei Sklaven
Hans Peter Kammerer as Der Bauer