Alexander Kluge Movies

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

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

"The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

Many of the greatest dramas feature a young woman who, trapped in the fatal triangle formed by the father, daughter and seducer, is killed. But there...

Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

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

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...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Lung fish and lions, nightingales and whales express themselves through sounds - they "sing". But humans alone have developed...

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Spengler, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the...

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

On Love’s Struggle through the Millennia. A chat between Alexander Kluge and Miriam Hansen through the prism of Griffith's INTOLERANCE.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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