Not Reconciled

press release:

West Germany | 1965 | 35mm | 55 min. | German with English subtitles

Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Cast: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang-Drewanz, Paolo Carlini

A fractured series of interrelated vignettes spanning three generations of a middle class German family tell the story of the rise, fall, and continuation of Nazism and the role the collective psyche plays in allowing its existence. The full German title translates as Not Reconciled, or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules.

Not Reconciled: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Icons of avant-garde cinema, the husband-wife team of Jean-Marie Straub and the late Danièle Huillet provided film history with one of its most intimate collaborative relationships. Beginning in 1954 and ending with Huillet’s death in 2006, Straub-Huillet worked closely together on every aspect of every project starting with a conceptual stage and carrying through to the final editing process. Together, they produced a body of work that includes several adaptations and re-thinkings of classical texts. This sampling of Straub-Huillet features seven of the duo’s best known features and shorts presented in original 35mm prints and new DCP restorations overseen by Jean-Marie Straub.

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