Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Straub, i whanau i Metz, i tutaki ki a Huillet i whanau i Paris hei akonga i te 1954. I uru a Straub ki roto i te hapori cinephile Parisian i taua wa. He hoa ia ki a Francois Truffaut, a, i uru ki tana whakaputanga "Cahiers du Cinéma", ahakoa i kore a Truffaut e whakaputa i nga tuhinga whakaoho a Straub. I mahi ia hei kaiawhina mo te kaiwhakahaere kiriata a Jacques Rivette i te kiriata 1956 "A Fool's Mate". I mahi ano ia i Paris hei kaiawhina mo Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson me Alexandre Astruc. I muri mai ka heke atu raua tokorua ki Tiamana kia kore ai a Straub e mahi hoia i Tiamana
Ko Ariria. I whakapau a Straub i ana tau tuatahi ki te rangahau i a Bach. I whakamahere a Huillet i te tuatahi ki te hanga kiriata ethnographic engari i te mutunga ka awhina ia ki a Straub i ana kaupapa. I te 1963, i hangaia e raua te "Machorka-Muff", he poto 18-meneti i runga i te korero a Heinrich Böll me ta raua mahi tahi tuatahi. Ko ta raatau kiriata e whai ake nei, ko te 55-meneti "Kaore i Whakaaetia", he whakarereke Böll ano hoki.