Alexander Kluge Movies

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...

Dusk at a construction site situated at the foot of where the Twin Towers once stood: "Public wounds heal slowly."

A short by Alexander Kluge.

This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.