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''Not Reconciled'' (german: Nicht versöhnt) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by
Jean-Marie Straub Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law * Jean-Marie C ...
. It has the subtitle ''Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns'' (german: Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht). The film is an adaptation of the 1959 novel ''
Billiards at Half-past Nine ''Billiards at Half-Past Nine'' (german: Billard um halb zehn) is a 1959 novel by the German author Heinrich Böll.Heinrich Böll.


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'' reviewed the film in 2008: "Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands."


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* 1960s avant-garde and experimental films 1965 drama films 1965 films Films based on German novels Films based on works by Heinrich Böll Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet German avant-garde and experimental films German drama films 1960s German-language films West German films Films set in Cologne 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub