Black Sin

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod Des Empedokles’.

Cast

Andreas von Rauch

as Empédocle

Vladimir Baratta

as Pausanias

Howard Vernon

as Manes

Danièle Huillet

as La femme (uncredited)

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