A Proposition in Four Parts

Overview

"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay. Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses und Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance." - MoMA

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 28, 1985

Original language

Italian

Countries

Italy

Production

RAI

Director

Jean-Marie Straub,Danièle Huillet

Producer

Enrico Ghezzi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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