Renato Berta Movies
- 1997
The Silence of Rak
The Silence of Rak61997HD
The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.
- 2010
Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle02010HD
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...
- 2011
O somma luce
O somma luce5.82011HD
In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the...
- 1994
La mort de Molière
La mort de Molière01994HD
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
- 2005
Roger Diamantis or Real Life
Roger Diamantis or Real Life02005HD
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...
- 1972
History Lessons
History Lessons5.61972HD
Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...
- 1976
The Big Night
The Big Night5.21976HD
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...
- 2014
The Old Man of Belem
The Old Man of Belem4.52014HD
Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city...
- 1995
Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno01995HD
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...
- 2003
Three-Step Dance
Three-Step Dance6.12003HD
Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.
- 2004
A Visit to the Louvre
A Visit to the Louvre6.22004HD
A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
- 1987
The Death of Empedocles
The Death of Empedocles5.31987HD
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
- 2001
Workers, Peasants
Workers, Peasants42001HD
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...
- 1977
Fortini/Cani
Fortini/Cani5.31977HD
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...
- 2008
Artemide’s Knee
Artemide’s Knee62008HD
Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen...
- 1977
San Gottardo
San Gottardo101977HD
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...
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene5.51973HD
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
- 2014
Chafariz das Virtudes
Chafariz das Virtudes22014HD
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...
- 1984
Tosca's Kiss
Tosca's Kiss6.91984HD
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,...
- 1983
Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life01983HD
Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.