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5.4/10 • 18

1971-01-131h 28m

Drama

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.

Directors
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Editors
Jean-Marie Straub

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  1. Adriano Aprà

    Adriano Aprà

    Othon

  2. Anne Brumagne

    Anne Brumagne

    Plautine

  3. Ennio Lauricella

    Ennio Lauricella

    Galba

  4. Olimpia Carlisi

    Olimpia Carlisi

    Camille

  5. Anthony Pensabene

    Anthony Pensabene

    Vinius

  6. Jean-Marie Straub

    Jean-Marie Straub

    Lucus

  7. Jean-Claude Biette

    Jean-Claude Biette

    Martianus

  8. Marilù Parolini

    Marilù Parolini

    Flavie

  9. Eduardo de Gregorio

    Eduardo de Gregorio

    Atticus

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
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