FRANCE, MINIDV, 4:3, COLOR
26’43” (VERSION A, SUBTITLED IN GERMAN)
26’27” (VERSION B, SUBTITLED IN FRENCH)
26’55” (VERSION C, SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH)
[Opening credits, black text on white]
– Cornelia Geiser, Jean-Marie Straub, Corneille–Brecht, Christophe Clavert, Jean-Claude Rousseau, Barbara Ulrich
TEXT: Pierre Corneille, Horace (1640) and Othon (1664); Bertolt Brecht, Das Verhör des Lukullus (The Trial of Lucullus, 1940).
PRODUCTION DATES AND LOCATION: July 2009, Jean-Marie Straub’s apartment, Paris. CAMERA: Panasonic AG DVX- 100.
SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH by Misha Donat and Straub, IN FRENCH by Bertrand Brouder, Barbara Ulrich and Straub, IN ITALIAN by Giorgio
Passerone and Straub.
FIRST SCREENING: 2009 Viennale (October 31); 2010 New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde (October 1).
