''The Death of Empedocles'' (german: Der Tod des Empedokles) is a 1987 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. It was entered into the

37th Berlin International Film Festival The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet Union film ''Tema'' directed by Gleb Panfilov. The retrospective was in honour of Armenian-American film and ...

Cast

* Martina Baratta * Vladimir Baratta * William Berger *

Georg Brintrup Georg Brintrup (born 25 October 1950) is a German-Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his non-narrative film essays on poetry and music as well as his biographical films. Life and career Georg Brintrup had already made ...

Howard Vernon Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996) was a Swiss actor. In 1961, he became a favorite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco and began starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. After po ...

Andreas von Rauch Andreas ( el, Ἀνδρέας) is a name usually given to males in Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Armenia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Finland, Flanders, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. The name ...

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* 1987 films 1980s avant-garde and experimental films German avant-garde and experimental films French avant-garde and experimental films West German films 1980s German-language films Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet German films based on plays Friedrich Hölderlin Biographical films about philosophers 1980s German films 1980s French films {{1980s-Germany-film-stub