"Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece."
Andreas von Rauch
as Empedokles
Vladimir Baratta
as Pausanias
Martina Baratta
as Panthea
Ute Cremer
as Della
Howard Vernon
as Hermokrates
William Berger
as Kritias
Federico Hecker
as Die drei bürger
Peter Boom
Giorgio Baratta
Georg Brintrup
as Die drei Sklaven
Achille Brugnini
Manfred Esser
Hans Peter Kammerer
as Der Bauer
Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Danièle Huillet
Friedrich Hölderlin
Theatre Play
Screenplay
Renato Berta
Director of Photography
Jean-Paul Toraille
Giovanni Canfarelli Modica
Louis Hochet
Sound Recordist
Georges Vaglio
Alessandro Zanon
Editor