Jean-Marie Straub
Director
1h 28m
Othon (1971)
Overview
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.55%
Danièle Huillet
Director
Cast
Adriano Aprà
Othon
Anne Brumagne
Plautine
Ennio Lauricella
Galba
Olimpia Carlisi
Camille
Anthony Pensabene
Vinius
Jean-Marie Straub
Lucus
Jean-Claude Biette
Martianus
Marilù Parolini
Flavie
Eduardo de Gregorio
Atticus
Sergio Rossi
Rutile
Adriano Aprà
Othon
Anne Brumagne
Plautine
Ennio Lauricella
Galba
Olimpia Carlisi
Camille
Anthony Pensabene
Vinius
Jean-Marie Straub
Lucus
Jean-Claude Biette
Martianus
Marilù Parolini
Flavie
Eduardo de Gregorio
Atticus
Sergio Rossi
Rutile
Extra
Release Date
January 13, 1971Original Language
FrenchBudget
$0.00Production Company
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