Othon
Othon

Othon

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1971
1h 28m
5.5(19 votes)
Drama

Overview

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

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Adriano Aprà

Othon

Adriano Aprà
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Anne Brumagne

Plautine

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Ennio Lauricella

Galba

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Olimpia Carlisi

Camille

Olimpia Carlisi
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Anthony Pensabene

Vinius

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Jean-Marie Straub

Lucus

Jean-Marie Straub
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Jean-Claude Biette

Martianus

Jean-Claude Biette
Writing

Marilù Parolini

Flavie

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Eduardo de Gregorio

Atticus

Eduardo de Gregorio
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Sergio Rossi

Rutile

Sergio Rossi

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