Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2025
    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

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    Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another...

    Primitive Diversity
  • 1965
    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück

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    Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

    ...Geist und ein wenig Glück
  • 1963
    Protocol of a Revolution

    Protocol of a Revolution

    Protocol of a Revolution

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    The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

    Protocol of a Revolution
  • 1976
    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand

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

    Strongman Ferdinand
  • 1995
    The Night of the Filmmakers

    The Night of the Filmmakers

    The Night of the Filmmakers

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

    The Night of the Filmmakers
  • 1998
    100 Years of the German Rhine

    100 Years of the German Rhine

    100 Years of the German Rhine

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    A short by Alexander Kluge.

    100 Years of the German Rhine
  • 2011
    Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

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    Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

    Nuits transparentes
  • 1961
    Rennen

    Rennen

    Rennen

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    Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real...

    Rennen
  • 2008
    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

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    Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for...

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

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    At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
  • 1994
    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    I Owe the World a Dead Person

    I Owe the World a Dead Person

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    In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...

    I Owe the World a Dead Person
  • 1999
    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea

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    The soul is an underwater entity. It expresses itself equally in Romeo and Juliet (by Vincenzo Bellini) and in the tragic fate of a deep-sea diver.

    My Love is Deeper than the Sea
  • 1982
    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    War and Peace

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    The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

    War and Peace
  • 2008
    News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

    News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

    News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

    6.82008HD

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

    News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital
  • 1988
    Why Are You Crying, Antonio?

    Why Are You Crying, Antonio?

    Why Are You Crying, Antonio?

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    Chamberlain, Mussolini and their aides attend a 1938 performance of Macbeth in Rome. This audience is itself made into the raw material of opera. The...

    Why Are You Crying, Antonio?
  • 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
  • 1992

    "The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"

    "The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"

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    Images from the Versailles summit in 1982 and from the summit at the Munich Residence in 1992: The leaders and their men. Also, images from the "hot...

  • 2026
    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

    Heterotopie der Oper

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    Heterotopie der Oper
  • 2002
    Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

    Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

    Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

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

    Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
  • 1990
    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge

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    Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

    Das Beste an der ARD sind ihre Anfänge