Communists (Kommunisten) 9 years old

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc)

Credits

Communists Cast

Name	Character
Jean-Marie Straub He was 81, now 91 years old
Barbara Ulrich
Danièle Huillet She was 78, 70 years old when she died	as La femme

Communists Crew

Name	Department
Jean-Marie Straub as Director. He was 81 (now 91) years old	Directing