Drama · Germany · 1987 · 2h 12m

The Death of Empedocles

Der Tod des Empedokles

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Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

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