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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene

West Germany, 1973

Short

Synopsis

Depicts the reading of a long letter by Schoenberg to Kandinsky in which he explains that, as a Jew, he cannot accept Kandinsky’s invitation to teach at the Bauhaus.

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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene Directed by Jean-Marie Straub

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Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

1973 | Directors' Fortnight

Viennale

2004

2007

2010

2017

German Film Critics Association Awards

1973 | Winner: Best Short Film

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

My Country: Peter Nestler at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

An extensive series in New York is a major effort to make one of Germany’s finest filmmakers better-known in the United States.

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What are people saying?

Karthik's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Karthik

The film starts with the nightmare image that ends History Lessons & confronts Schoenberg's letters to Kandinsky about antisemitism with Brecht's text about fascism & capitalism. That cut from one to the other through a prickly Huillet stroking her cat is astonishingly provocative. THIS is the true 'alienation effect': a scourge to the ethical imagination, not the 'we are playing at playing' tripe that passes for it
January 24, 2019 17:28
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Brotherdeacon's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Brotherdeacon

Another strident cartoon on anti-fascism, the ills of capitalism and assorted things we shouldn't think. It plays like a lampoon.
January 12, 2017 15:53
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Lynch/Fellini's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Lynch/Fellini

Straub-Huillet's short is a powerful statement on the sinister nature of capitalism!
December 31, 2018 04:45
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Stian Gledje Bekkvik's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Stian Gledje Bekkvik

It's everything I thought I despised...
March 21, 2017 14:57
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Marc St-Cyr (Death cinéphilia)'s rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Marc St-Cyr (Death cinéphilia)

We are all fascists. http://films7.com/art/film/schoenberg-kandinsky-aryen-juif (french subtitles)
November 10, 2015 04:13
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Samuel Andrade's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Samuel Andrade

"Threatening Danger, Fear, Catastrophe".
November 01, 2015 23:47
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pomegranate's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
pomegranate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUxR8muDlI&t=70s
August 22, 2018 12:20
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Diderot's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Diderot

Leave it to Straub and Huillet to pack this much punch into a 15 minute short. A masterpiece.
October 03, 2016 00:00
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene

Synopsis

Awards & Festivals

Cast & Crew

Jean-Marie Straub Editing, Cast, Screenplay Director

Danièle Huillet Cast and Editing

Peter Nestler Cast

Bertolt Brecht Screenplay

Arnold Schönberg Music and Screenplay

Horst Bever Cinematography

Renato Berta Cinematography

Jeti Grigioni Sound

Articles from the Notebook

My Country: Peter Nestler at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

What are people saying?

Karthik's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Brotherdeacon's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Lynch/Fellini's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Stian Gledje Bekkvik's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Marc St-Cyr (Death cinéphilia)'s rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Samuel Andrade's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

pomegranate's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

Diderot's rating of the film Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

In these lists

Related films

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

Return of the Prodigal Son - Humiliated

These Encounters of Theirs

History Lessons

Workers, Peasants

From the Clouds to the Resistance

En rachâchant

Too Early, Too Late

Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules

Class Relations

Moses and Aaron

Fortini/Cani