The Death of Empedocles (1987)
• October 14th, 1987 • 2h 12min
Drama
Overview
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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