Othon
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.
Cast
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Adriano Aprà
Played Othon
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Anne Brumagne
Played Plautine
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Ennio Lauricella
Played Galba
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Olimpia Carlisi
Played Camille
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Anthony Pensabene
Played Vinius
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Jean-Marie Straub
Played Lucus
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Jean-Claude Biette
Played Martianus
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Marilù Parolini
Played Flavie
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Eduardo de Gregorio
Played Atticus
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Sergio Rossi
Played Rutile
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