Alexander Kluge Movies

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

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

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

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

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...

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

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

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

Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...

"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent...

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...

As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played...

The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...