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Black Sin

Dir. Jean-Marie Straub·1989·42m

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod des Empedokles’.

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Black Sin (1989)

Jean-Marie Straub

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42m
Cross-source blend ~51/100

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Countries

Germany

Ratings

TMDB users

4.7/10

7 votes

IMDb

5.5/10

Users

Rating consensus

51/100 blend

Sources: TMDB · IMDb

Cooler blended reception — weighted ~51/100 across 2 rating sources. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

Andreas von Rauch

Empédocle

Vladimir Baratta

Pausanias

Howard Vernon

Manes

Danièle Huillet

La femme (uncredited)

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