Not Reconciled

Not Reconciled (German: Nicht versöhnt) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Jean-Marie Straub. It has the subtitle Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns (German: Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht). The film is an adaptation of the 1959 novel Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Böll.

Not Reconciled
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Directed by	Jean-Marie Straub
Screenplay by	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Based on	Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Böll
Cinematography	Christian Blackwood Gerhard Ries Wendelin Sachtler Jean-Marie Straub
Edited by	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Release date	4 July 1965 (1965-07-04) (Berlinale)
Running time	55 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Reception

Richard Brody of The New Yorker reviewed the film in 2008: "Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands."^[1]