Renato Berta Movies

  • 1997
    The Silence of Rak

    The Silence of Rak

    The Silence of Rak

    61997HD

    The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

    The Silence of Rak
  • 2010
    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

    02010HD

    In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot...

    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
  • 2011
    O somma luce

    O somma luce

    O somma luce

    5.82011HD

    In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the...

    O somma luce
  • 1994
    La mort de Molière

    La mort de Molière

    La mort de Molière

    01994HD

    A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...

    La mort de Molière
  • 2005
    Roger Diamantis or Real Life

    Roger Diamantis or Real Life

    Roger Diamantis or Real Life

    02005HD

    Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show...

    Roger Diamantis or Real Life
  • 1972
    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    5.61972HD

    Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

    History Lessons
  • 1976
    The Big Night

    The Big Night

    The Big Night

    5.21976HD

    In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's...

    The Big Night
  • 2014
    The Old Man of Belem

    The Old Man of Belem

    The Old Man of Belem

    4.52014HD

    Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...

    The Old Man of Belem
  • 1995
    Kazuo Ohno

    Kazuo Ohno

    Kazuo Ohno

    01995HD

    Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years before...

    Kazuo Ohno
  • 2003
    Three-Step Dance

    Three-Step Dance

    Three-Step Dance

    6.12003HD

    Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.

    Three-Step Dance
  • 2004
    A Visit to the Louvre

    A Visit to the Louvre

    A Visit to the Louvre

    6.22004HD

    A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

    A Visit to the Louvre
  • 1987
    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    The Death of Empedocles

    5.31987HD

    Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

    The Death of Empedocles
  • 2001
    Workers, Peasants

    Workers, Peasants

    Workers, Peasants

    42001HD

    A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...

    Workers, Peasants
  • 1977
    Fortini/Cani

    Fortini/Cani

    Fortini/Cani

    5.31977HD

    The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his...

    Fortini/Cani
  • 2008
    Artemide’s Knee

    Artemide’s Knee

    Artemide’s Knee

    62008HD

    Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen...

    Artemide’s Knee
  • 1977
    San Gottardo

    San Gottardo

    San Gottardo

    101977HD

    In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling...

    San Gottardo
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    5.51973HD

    This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 2014
    Chafariz das Virtudes

    Chafariz das Virtudes

    Chafariz das Virtudes

    22014HD

    Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old...

    Chafariz das Virtudes
  • 1984
    Tosca's Kiss

    Tosca's Kiss

    Tosca's Kiss

    6.91984HD

    Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers,...

    Tosca's Kiss
  • 1983
    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    01983HD

    Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

    Imitation of Life