Alexander Kluge Movies

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

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

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

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and...

Alexander Kluge - October 22 2016

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...

Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...

An opera film by Alexander Kluge

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.