Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour (Othon)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times or Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn (Othon)With
- Adriano Aprà (Othon)
- Anne Brumagne (Plautina)
- Ennio Lauricella (Galba)
- Olimpia Carlisi (Camilla)
- Anthony Pensabene (Vinius)
- Jubarita Semaran (Laco)
- Jean-Claude Biette (Marcianus)
- Leo Mingrone (Albinus)
- Gianna Mingrone (Albiane)
- Marilù Parolini (Flavia)
- Eduardo De Gregorio (Atticus)
- Sergio Rossi (Rutilkus)
- Sebastian Schadhauser (First soldier)
- Jacques Fillion (Second soldier)
Crew
Director | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet |
Screenplay | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet adapted from 'Othon' by Pierre Corneille |
Cinematography | Ugo Piccoune, Renato Berta |
Sound | Louis Hochet, Lucien Moreau |
Produced by
Janus Film und Fernsehen Vertriebsgesellschaft
Jean-Marie Straub
Born in Metz, France in 1933. In 1951, he started studying in Strasbourg and Nancy and ran a film club in Metz on the side. Straub went to Paris in the mid-1950s, where he met his future wife Danièle Huillet. Since the death of his wife in 2006, Straub has continued to make films on his own.
Filmography
1962 Machorka-Muff; 18 min., Retrospective 2002 1965 Nicht versöhnt oder es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht; 53 min., Retrospective 2002 1967 Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach); 94 min, Retrospective 1990 and 2010 1972 Geschichtsunterricht; 88 min. 1975 Moses und Aron; 110 min. 1979 Von der Wolke zum Widerstand; 104 min. 1983 Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations); 130 min., Competition 1984 1986 Der Tod des Empedokles – oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem euch erglänzt (The Death Of Empedocles); 132 min., Competition 1987 1990 Cézanne; 65 min., Forum 1991 1991 Antigone; 100 min., Panorama 1992, Panorama (Special Screenings) 2000 1997 Von heute auf morgen. Oper in einem Akt von Arnold Schönberg; 62 min. 1999 Sicilia!; 66 min. 2001 Arbeiter, Bauern; 123 min. 2006 Quei loro incontri; 68 min. 2014 À propos de Venise; 23 min. 2017 Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub?; 7 min.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020
Danièle Huillet
Born in Paris in 1936. In the mid-1950s she met her future husband Jean-Marie Straub, with whom she worked closely from then on. In 1958, they moved to Germany and made their first short film Machorka-Muff. From the late 1960s onwards, Straub and Huillet lived in Italy, where they made their first colour film Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour (Othon) (1970). Huillet died in 2006.
Filmography
1962 Machorka-Muff; 18 min., Retrospective 2002 1965 Nicht versöhnt oder es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht; 53 min., Retrospective 2002 1972 Geschichtsunterricht; 88 min. 1975 Moses und Aron; 110 min. 1979 Von der Wolke zum Widerstand; 104 min. 1983 Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations); 130 min., Competition 1984 1986 Der Tod des Empedokles – oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem euch erglänzt (The Death Of Empedocles); 132 min., Competition 1987 1990 Cézanne; 65 min., Forum 1991 1991 Antigone; 100 min., Panorama 1992, Panorama (Special Screenings) 2000 1997 Von heute auf morgen. Oper in einem Akt von Arnold Schönberg; 62 min. 1999 Sicilia!; 66 min. 2001 Arbeiter, Bauern; 123 min. 2006 Quei loro incontri; 68 min.
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020