Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
Aldo Fruttuosi
as Ventura 'Faccia Cattiva'
Rosalba Curatola
as Siracusa
Franco Fortini
as Himself
Andreas von Rauch
as Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta
as Pausanias
Danièle Huillet
as La femme
Jean-Marie Straub
as
Barbara Ulrich
as
Gilles Pandel
as
Arnaud Dommerc
as
