Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2002
    N.Y. Ground Zero

    N.Y. Ground Zero

    N.Y. Ground Zero

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

    N.Y. Ground Zero
  • 1973
    Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

    Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

    Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

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    Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

    Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
  • 1983
    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

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    The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2017
    Reason is a Balancing Animal

    Reason is a Balancing Animal

    Reason is a Balancing Animal

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    Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

    Reason is a Balancing Animal
  • 1994
    Under the Sign of Mars

    Under the Sign of Mars

    Under the Sign of Mars

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    This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial...

    Under the Sign of Mars
  • 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
  • 2024
    Happy Root From Non-Identity

    Happy Root From Non-Identity

    Happy Root From Non-Identity

    02024HD

    With the painter Gerhard Richter.

    Happy Root From Non-Identity
  • 1995
    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

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    The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
  • 2018
    The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

    The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

    The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises

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    Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

    The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
  • 2007
    Das Phänomen der Oper

    Das Phänomen der Oper

    Das Phänomen der Oper

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    People who do not have the patience or the opportunity to listen to all 86,000 operas that exist in the world need an opera guide. The opera guide is...

    Das Phänomen der Oper
  • 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

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    Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024
    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist

    02024HD

    An homage to Max Horkheimer.

    Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist
  • 2025
    The Klimperclown

    The Klimperclown

    The Klimperclown

    5.82025HD

    A mockumentary about the life of the german musician and comedian Helge Schneider

    The Klimperclown
  • 2007
    War is the End of all Plans

    War is the End of all Plans

    War is the End of all Plans

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    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...

    War is the End of all Plans
  • 2007
    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    02007HD

    The film is both a representation of the installation elements (tiled mosaics of images projected on four walls and the ceiling of a gallery) and a...

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors
  • 1970
    The most beautiful treasure of evolution

    The most beautiful treasure of evolution

    The most beautiful treasure of evolution

    01970HD

    A nobleman, Mr. Waller von Wallerstein, is fatally ill. He places an advertisement for the adoption of a child who is to continue the old noble line....

    The most beautiful treasure of evolution