Alexander Kluge Movies

An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...

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

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

Durs Grünbein's "Moscow Menagerie" is about a rare Saiga antelope, a female cheetah, a Mafioso named "Ironhand", the on-duty cobras...

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

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...

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

Händel's opera about the "writing on the wall" in Babylon: Belshazzar, the young, haughty King of Babylon, uses the temple goblets of the Jews,...

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

Mata Hari and the Danish baroness Carla Jesse are among the most powerful women in the history of espionage. Carla Jesse's method was the kiss of...

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

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