''Not Reconciled'' () is a 1965 West German drama film directed by
Jean-Marie Straub
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. It has the subtitle ''Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns'' (). The film is an adaptation of the 1959 novel ''
'' by
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Theodor Böll (; ; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
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Richard Brody
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of ''
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'' 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."
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1960s avant-garde and experimental films
1965 drama films
1965 films
Films based on German novels
Films based on works by Heinrich Böll
Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
German avant-garde and experimental films
German drama films
1960s German-language films
West German films
Films set in Cologne
1960s German films
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