Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Straub, wanda aka haife shi a Metz, ya sadu da Huillet wanda aka haife shi a Paris a matsayin dalibi a 1954. Straub ya shiga cikin al'ummar cinephile na Paris a lokacin. Ya kasance abokai tare da Francois Truffaut kuma ya ba da gudummawa ga littafinsa "Cahiers du Cinéma", kodayake Truffaut ya ƙi buga rubuce-rubucen Straub masu tayar da hankali. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin darektan fina-finai Jacques Rivette a fim din 1956 "A Fool's Mate". Ya kuma yi aiki a Paris a matsayin mataimakin Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson da Alexandre Astruc. Daga baya ma'auratan suka ƙaura zuwa Jamus domin Straub ya guji aikin soja a Algeria
Ka yi haƙuri. Straub ya shafe 'yan shekarun farko na binciken Bach. Huillet ya fara shirin yin fina-finai na al'ada amma daga bisani ya taimaka wa Straub a kan ayyukansa. A cikin 1963, sun yi "Machorka-Muff", wani ɗan gajeren minti 18 bisa labarin Heinrich Böll da haɗin gwiwarsu na farko. Fim ɗin su na gaba, "Ba a sulhunta" na mintina 55 ba, shima ya dace da Böll.