Alexander Kluge Movies

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

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

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Irm Hermann recalls the funeral of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

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

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The heart of the legs.

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

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...

Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.

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

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.

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...

A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...