Film

Black Sin

4.7198942mDrama

Director: Jean-Marie Straub
Year: 1989

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod des Empedokles’.

Top cast

Andreas von Rauch

Empédocle

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Howard Vernon

Manes

Danièle Huillet

La femme (uncredited)

Directed by

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Written by

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Produced by

Danièle Huillet, Dominique Païni, Jean-Marie Straub