Not Reconciled

1965 [GERMAN]

Action / Drama / History

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 853 853

Plot summary

A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.

Director

Jean-Marie Straub Photo
Jean-Marie Straub

Top cast

Rudolf Thome Photo
Rudolf Thome
Anita Bell Photo
Anita Bell as Alte Kartenspielerin
Johannes Buzalski Photo
Johannes Buzalski
Heinrich Hargesheimer Photo
Heinrich Hargesheimer as Heinrich Fähmel at age 80
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430.46 MB
956*720
German 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
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843.98 MB
1424*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by marcosmarino

A challenging film

This is one of the most important films made in the sixties, and should be understood as an attempt to develop non-classical forms of film narrative in a politically-oriented way. The movie is based on a novel by Heinrich Boll which tells the story of a german family from 1900 to 1950, from the beginning of the XXth century to the rising of nazism and the postwar years. The plot from the novel is however condensed and disarticulated in the film, with many flashbacks, and therefore the viewer is encouraged to reconstruct the story and to fill the gaps. This creates a fascinating atmosphere and conveys the main message from Straub: that Germany, in the sixties, was still haunted by the specter of nazism, and in that sense German people were "not reconciled" yet.If you are not used to art movies, this film will be a difficult one, but you should keep in mind that this movie is closer to a painting by Picasso than to a TV series. If you don´t like this kind of movies, don´t watch this one, and if you watch it by mistake, don´t send silly comments to IMDB:
Reviewed by matt-201 2 / 10

Arbeit macht angst

Compositions resembling Puritan stocks, locking the un-actors in a Carl Dreyer hammergrip; wooden-faced line-readers, resembling Krupp Armaments executives and their wives, cannonading through dullish, classroom-style monologues; uber-Teutonic pauses for a stagy sip of coffee or stilted stare in the middle distance--staying awake through Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet's brush-clearing work of sixties-film-festival torment resembles the feeling of Hermann Goering falling on your head.
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