Alexander Kluge Movies

Aristocrats playing at the simple life are surprised by a revolution. Now, under emergency conditions, love relations develop with great power....

Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

When German soldiers threatened march into Kiev in the summer of 1941, the local motorized fire brigade was brought to safety. But when the expert...

Count Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff, developed in the years up to 1905 a promising plan which was to help the German Reich...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

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

The world's only opera to trigger a revolution during its premiere is "The Mute Girl of Portici" by Daniel Francois Esprit Auber. The audience in...

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

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".

The moon, born from the ribs of the earth, has been its companion for billions of years. It is gradually moving away from us at a rate of several...

The radiation, which upper level winds and rain from Chernobyl's explosion centre spread over Europe's furrows, consisted of various radioactive...

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.