Alexander Kluge Movies

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

The explosion of a munitions train standing in the congested lines of hospital trains at the station in Hamont in Belgium caused a disaster in...

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

Oiran were the beautiful and educated courtesans of Edo, the capital of the Japanses Shogun; the city which is now called Tokyo. In her feature film...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

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...

The playwright Heiner Müller had a favorite book in his final year of life: "Post-Heroic Management" by Dirk Baecker. What does "post-heroic"...

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

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...

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

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

As storms cross over an orchestra and notes fly by, a ship is sinking. While one woman sleeps, another is rescued (in her sleep?). An opera guide is...

Directed by Alexander Kluge

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

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

In his production of "Hamlet" at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, Christoph Schlingensief played the role of Fortinbras. This commander has the shortest...

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, which could be considered good without qualification, except a good will." Various egos are at work,...

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...