02 Nov 1995
Short Working Day
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.
Communists
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
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Aldo Fruttuosi Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'
Rosalba Curatola Siracusa
Andreas von Rauch Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta Pausanias
Barbara Ulrich Gilles Pandel
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