Emerging from the French New Wave, driven by artistic purity, he and his wife and directing partner, Danièle Huillet, didn’t care if audiences walked out on their films.
Straub, who has died at the age of 89, was, together with his wife Danièle Huillet, one of the most radical and incendiary of political filmmakers in post-war Germany, Italy and France.
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