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History lessons / by Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Caesar, Julius--Drama.
- Caesar, Julius.
- Feature films--Germany.
- Feature films.
- Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Geschichtsunterricht
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Grasshopper Film, 1972.
- Language Note:
- In German with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Based on the unfinished novel Die Geschafte des Herrn Julius Caesar by Bertolt Brecht. Four interviews with contemporaries of Caesar (a banker, a former soldier, a lawyer and a writer) are conducted by a young contemporary German replacing Brecht's narrator, a contemporary of Caesar's. The interviews place Caesar's exploits in direct perspective undermining his heroic, legendary image. They are linked by long takes filmed from a car being driven through the old quarter of Rome. Straub and Huillet have no desire to transport the viewer into an illusion of the past. This is distanciated history through a materialist play on codes of acting and cinematic construction in which no one language dominates the other. Straub and Huillet like Brecht invite the viewer to construct a reading from a plurality of meanings.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 14, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1231566060
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5093606/marc
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