Alexander Kluge Movies

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

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

Collage film regarding astronomy.

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

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

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...

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments...

Documentary aired on German television in 1989. Includes interviews with Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Kluge and more.

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

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

In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and...