Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 1996

    "The Wind Will Clean It Off"

    "The Wind Will Clean It Off"

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    At the time of the catastrophe, Oxana Pentak, an engineer in charge of adjusting automatic systems, was living on Lenin Street in Pripjet - closer to...

  • 2020
    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941

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    Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...

    The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
  • 1993
    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

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    Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

    The Death of Seneca
  • 1983
    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour

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    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...

    Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
  • 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
  • 1985
    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

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    A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
  • 2000
    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard

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

    Ich war Hitlers Bodyguard
  • 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
  • 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

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    "The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions
  • 2020
    The Leaks of Venice

    The Leaks of Venice

    The Leaks of Venice

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

    The Leaks of Venice
  • 1996
    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management

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    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...

    Epic Theater & Post-heroic Management
  • 1979
    The Patriotic Woman

    The Patriotic Woman

    The Patriotic Woman

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

    The Patriotic Woman
  • 2012
    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

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    In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner...

    Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge
  • 2026
    Utopie der Oper

    Utopie der Oper

    Utopie der Oper

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    Utopie der Oper
  • 2024
    Happy Root From Non-Identity

    Happy Root From Non-Identity

    Happy Root From Non-Identity

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    With the painter Gerhard Richter.

    Happy Root From Non-Identity
  • 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
  • 2005
    The Officer as a Philosopher

    The Officer as a Philosopher

    The Officer as a Philosopher

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    The Officer as a Philosopher
  • 1993
    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

    Plowshare of Evil

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    Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

    Plowshare of Evil
  • 1966
    News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

    News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

    News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival

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    A news documentary about the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

    News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival
  • 1970
    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

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

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)