Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 1998
    Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

    Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

    Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds

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    Five Hours Parsifal in 90 Seconds
  • 2008
    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

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    Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
  • 1977
    People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

    People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

    People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary

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    Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

    People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary
  • 2001

    "Love Pain Like Mute Fish"

    "Love Pain Like Mute Fish"

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    Selected scenes from the Christoph Schlingensief revue at the Berliner Volksbühne .

  • 2006
    Sam Remembers Papa Kong

    Sam Remembers Papa Kong

    Sam Remembers Papa Kong

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    A monkey reminisces about King Kong

    Sam Remembers Papa Kong
  • 1990
    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

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    Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge
  • 2024
    An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

    An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

    An Opera That Sparked a Revolution

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    With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

    An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
  • 1983
    Biermann-Film

    Biermann-Film

    Biermann-Film

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    A short by Alexander Kluge.

    Biermann-Film
  • 2000
    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

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    A portrait of Manfred Pichota, played by Peter Berling, tells about the period in which he was the Führer's bodyguard.

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
  • 1976
    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

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

    Strongman Ferdinand
  • 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

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    A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

    The Last of the Mohicans
  • 1970
    Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

    Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

    Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

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    On Love’s Struggle through the Millennia. A chat between Alexander Kluge and Miriam Hansen through the prism of Griffith's INTOLERANCE.

    Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?
  • 2018
    Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

    Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

    Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt

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

    Der Zirkus kommt in die Stadt
  • 1996
    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded

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    A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

    He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
  • 1994
    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    I Owe the World a Dead Person

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    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...

    I Owe the World a Dead Person
  • 1961
    Brutality in Stone

    Brutality in Stone

    Brutality in Stone

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

    Brutality in Stone
  • 1999
    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience

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

    Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
  • 1988
    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

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    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...

    The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman
  • 2007

    "The Burning Giraffe"

    "The Burning Giraffe"

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    Durs Grünbein's "Moscow Menagerie" is about a rare Saiga antelope, a female cheetah, a Mafioso named "Ironhand", the on-duty cobras...

  • 2012
    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality

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    Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

    Rigor Was His Mark of Quality