Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht (1965)

Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht: Directed by Jean-Marie Straub. With Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner, Danièle Huillet. An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their various generations.

“Compositions resembling Puritan stocks, locking the un-actors in a Carl Dreyer hammergrip; wooden-faced line-readers, resembling Krupp Armaments executives and their wives, cannonading through dullish, classroom-style monologues; uber-Teutonic pauses for a stagy sip of coffee or stilted stare in the middle distance–staying awake through Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huilletu0026#39;s brush-clearing work of sixties-film-festival torment resembles the feeling of Hermann Goering falling on your head.”