Alexander Kluge Movies

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

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

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

The German Army is today active in Africa, the Hindu Kush and in the Balkans. How do the troops respond to the new challenges? What does Clausewitz...

The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of...

65 mm is the technical format with the best qualifications for classic cinema. The images and the history of cinema shift (as if the film were a...

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...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

Terrorism and skyscrapers confront expert fire fighters with severe problems. Is it possible to plan for future catastrophes when new buildings are...

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

Kraft durch Freude (strength through joy) in the war year 1942. In the war years, young German women had to contend with female rivals in the...

Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

Assuming that an observer living in the year 6000 would contemplate our period, for example, from 1607 to 2008 (approximately the era of our opera),...

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...