Not Reconciled

Not Reconciled
Not Reconciled
	Film poster
Directed by	Jean-Marie Straub
Screenplay by	Jean-Marie Straub; Danièle Huillet;
Based on	Billiards at Half-past Nine; by Heinrich Böll
Cinematography	Christian Blackwood; Gerhard Ries; Wendelin Sachtler; Jean-Marie Straub;
Edited by	Jean-Marie Straub; Danièle Huillet;
Release date	4 July 1965 (Berlinale);
Running time	55 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Not Reconciled (German: Nicht versöhnt) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Jean-Marie Straub. It has the subtitle Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns (German: Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht). The film is an adaptation of the 1959 novel Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Böll.

Reception[edit]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker reviewed the film in 2008: "Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands."^[1]

References[edit]

^ Brody, Richard (2008-11-24). "Not Reconciled". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-05-12.

External links[edit]

Not Reconciled at IMDb

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[1] Brody, Richard (2008-11-24). "Not Reconciled". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-05-12.

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