Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
Is Communists on Netflix? Unfortunately the movie Communists is not yet available on Netflix.
| Directing | Jean-Marie Straub | Director |
| Writing | Jean-Marie Straub | Screenplay |
| Writing | André Malraux | Novel |
| Writing | Elio Vittorini | Novel |
| Writing | Franco Fortini | Novel |
| Writing | Friedrich Hölderlin | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Christophe Clavert | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Christophe Clavert | Editor |
| Sound | Dimitry Haulet | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Hanns Eisler | Music |
