Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt

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Genre: Plot
Premiere: 1987
Running time: 2h 12m
Country: France

The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth,...