Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

1973 · 15 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 204 VOTES · DIR. Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

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Overview

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.

Dialogue Timeline - 257 lines

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00:00:53 In the scores of his dramas and operas
00:01:24 by their lack of culture and their impotence."
00:02:16 Menacing danger, fear, catastrophe.
00:02:54 but I am a Jew.
00:03:23 and in their evil actions only the Jewishness
00:03:55 on a piece of cardboard and hang it
00:04:26 But is it possible for him to have even a single thought in common
00:04:58 Why is an Aryan judged by Goethe, Schopenhauer and so forth?
00:05:30 that someone like myself lets himself be rejected!
00:06:05 that aim at bringing about the possibility
00:06:32 On the contrary, it is all part of a plan
00:07:02 I'm not one and never was one!
00:07:30 I don't understand it. For all that won't stand up to serious examination.
00:08:01 Don't you know that in peace-time
00:08:33 both depend only to the very slightest degree
00:09:07 and starve. This is the way it must be, and not otherwise -
00:09:44 that they defend themselves merely as business-men
00:10:20 Nowadays it is race;
00:10:50 unaided against the whole of mankind.
00:11:31 Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism
00:11:57 but where the butchers wash their hands
00:12:28 The private monopoly of factories, mines, and land
00:14:40 The main issue, whether the two accused
13:19:05 in Los Angeles

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed257
Dialogue density17.1 lines / min
First line00:00:53
Final line13:19:05

Production Record

DirectorDanièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes204