Alexander Kluge Movies

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

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

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip...

As storms cross over an orchestra and notes fly by, a ship is sinking. While one woman sleeps, another is rescued (in her sleep?). An opera guide is...

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...

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...

A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

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

Hermes Phettberg, born October 5, 1952 in Hollabrunn, Austria, was the assistant vicar with the archdiocese of Vienna until 1981 when he was...

With over 200 years it has been considered that romantic relationships must be spontaneous. This is paradoxical insofar as the imperative form "must"...

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of...

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

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

The G8 Summit in Heiligendamm presented the security organizers with immense problems. The seaward boundary posed a particular risk. Hans-Erich...

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".

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

He is a music pirate, that is, he makes illegal recordings of underground music groups and sells them on the streets of New York. Cyd is the call...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

How does Clausewitz define war? What does the US president mean when he talks of a new kind of war in the 21st century? What does history teach us...