Jean-Marie Straub

Jean-Marie Straub

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
January 8, 1933

Biography

Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933, Metz – 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo’s best regarded works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Straub–Huillet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

La Madre
La Madre
3.9
/ Italian
L’Inconsolable
L’Inconsolable
5.0
/ French
Class Relations
Class Relations
6.8
/ German
Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub
Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub
No Rating Yet
/ English
Machorka-Muff
Machorka-Muff
6.1
/ German
Un héritier
Un héritier
5.0
/ French
Lothringen!
Lothringen!
6.5
/ German
Workers, Peasants
Workers, Peasants
4.4
/ Italian
Il viandante
Il viandante
5.7
/ Italian
Humiliated
Humiliated
No Rating Yet
/ Italian

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013Nominee

Best Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

La Madre
2012Nominee

Best Writing

La Madre

L’Inconsolable
2011Nominee

Best Director

L’Inconsolable

Career Highlights

Class Relations
1984Highlight

Best Director

Class Relations

Machorka-Muff
1963Highlight

Best Director

Machorka-Muff