The Death of Empedocles
6.4
1987
2 hr 12 min
Drama
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
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- Cast：
- Howard Vernon , William Berger , Peter Boom , Achille Brugnini
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